Saviour Siblings: No Avoiding the Hard Questions

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Saviour Siblings: No Avoiding the Hard Questions

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Michelle Taylor-Sands is skeptical of the sorts of reasons that have typically been advanced in support of creating saviour siblings. The precarious nature of such claims, Taylor-Sands maintains, provides a reason to be skeptical of an individualistic approach to the child’s interests, and to seek instead to justify the creation of saviour siblings on several other grounds. These include: that the saviour sibling shares ‘collective interests’ with its intimate family; and that the future chil...

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Research paper

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Article

Date created

2015

Creator

Gavaghan, Colin

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/9198

Related subjects

Saviour Siblings / Gene Editing / Biology Law / Technology and Law / Ethics / Family Law / Bioethics

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