Sex Selection and Regulated Hatred
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Harris, John
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Journal of Medical Ethics 2005 May; 31(5): 291-294
Abstract
This paper argues that the HFEA's recent report on sex selection abdicates its responsibility to give its own authentic advice on the matters within its remit, that it accepts arguments and conclusions that are implausible on the face of it and where they depend on empirical claims, produces no empirical evidence whatsoever, but relies on reckless speculation as to what the "facts" are likely to be. Finally, having committed itself to what I call the "democratic presumption", that human freedom will not be constrained unless very good and powerful reasons can be produced to justify such infringement of liberty, the HFEA simply reformulates the democratic presumption as saying the opposite-- namely that freedom may only be exercised if powerful justifications are produced for any exercise of liberty.
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