THE ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY SUBSIDY IN KOREA: CRITICISM FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF REPRODUCTIVE RESPONSIBILITY
- 주제(키워드) reproduction , reproductive rights , reproductive responsibility , assisted reproductive technology
- 주제(기타) Ethics; Medical Ethics; Social Sciences, Biomedical
- 설명문(일반) [Kim, Claire Junga] Ewha Womans Univ, Coll Med, Dept Med Educ, Seoul, South Korea
- 등재 SCIE, SSCI, SCOPUS
- 발행기관 UNIV CHILE, CENTRO INTERDISCIPLINARIO ESTUDIOS BIOETICA
- 발행년도 2018
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000156756
- 본문언어 영어
초록/요약
The Korean government's new policy of subsidizing assisted reproductive technology (ART) fees to increase the birth rate reflects a lack of concern for future generations and their quality of life. It seems wrong to treat the future child as just a number that contributes to achieving the target birth rate, or as a mere means of solving a problem facing the current generation. However, when one tries to articulate the shortcomings of this new policy, one realizes that the ontological arguments surrounding this issue, namely the non-identity problem is complex. I propose the concept of reproductive responsibility as a response to the possible life. This concept presupposes a relationship between the reproductive agent and the possible new life. Since the concept draws the normative standard from that relationship, it resolves the non-identity problem and makes it possible to criticize the new policy of subsidizing ART.
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