I love my children: am I racist? On the wish to be biologically related to one's children. Issue 12 (31st May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Di Nucci, Ezio
• Is Part Of: Journal of medical ethics. Volume 44:Issue 12(2018)
• Page Start: 814
• Page End: 816
• Publication Date: 2018-05-31
• Subjects: reproductive medicine; Medical ethics -- Periodicals; 174.2
• DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2017-104213
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-6800

Abstract

Abstract : Is the wish to be biologically related to your children legitimate? Here, I respond to an argument in support of a negative answer to this question according to which a preference towards having children one is biologically related to is analogous to a preference towards associating with members of one's own race. I reject this analogy, mainly on the grounds that only the latter constitutes discrimination; still, I conclude that indeed a preference towards children one is biologically related to is morally illegitimate because, in the context of parental love, biological considerations are normatively irrelevant.