Teo Marcus T L
Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Bioethics. 2025 Sep;39(7):693-699. doi: 10.1111/bioe.13432. Epub 2025 Jun 11.
This essay begins from the point that developments in antinatalism, or the view that it is wrong to bear children, place legitimate pressures on prospective parents to seriously consider the harms of bringing their prospective children into existence. This essay does not defend antinatalism but instead considers an upshot of bioethical import if one takes these antinatalist pressures seriously. Attending to the debate on the normative legitimacy of Savulescu's Principle of Procreative Beneficence (PPB), I argue that antinatalist pressures give rise to reasons that count in favor of the PPB. I show how an antinatalist-corollary version of the PPB might be derived and how we might respond to the PPB's main criticisms and conceptual difficulties.
反生育主义(即认为生育孩子是错误的观点)的发展给准父母带来了合理压力,促使他们认真考虑将未来的孩子带到世上所带来的危害。本文并不为反生育主义辩护,而是探讨如果有人认真对待这些反生育主义压力,会产生的一个具有生物伦理重要性的结果。关注关于萨夫勒斯库的生殖利他主义原则(PPB)规范合法性的辩论,我认为反生育主义压力产生了支持PPB的理由。我展示了如何推导PPB的反生育主义推论版本,以及我们如何回应PPB的主要批评和概念难题。