Universal Procreation Rights and Future Generations
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ABSTRACT It is often acknowledged that public policies can constrain people's procreative opportunities, in some cases even infringing their rights. However, a topic not discussed how the choices of one generation affect opportunities later generations. In this article, we argue demographic fact childbearing above replacement fertility level eventually unsustainable supports two constraints on universal procreation rights: compossibility constraint and an egalitarian constraint. We explore implications these suggest there are reasons to think opportunity as finite resource be distributed more or less equally across also briefly discuss possible ways meeting demands intergenerational justice with respect opportunity.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Philosophy
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1468-5930', '0264-3758']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12638