{"id":8302,"date":"2018-04-23T08:29:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T15:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2023-01-22T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T23:16:51","slug":"conscience-claims-metaphysics-and-avoiding-an-lgbt-eugenic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8302","title":{"rendered":"Conscience claims, metaphysics, and avoiding an LGBT eugenic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abram Brummet<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"174\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bioethics.jpg\" alt=\"Bioethics\" class=\"wp-image-11050\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bioethics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>Novel assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are poised to present our society with strange new ethical questions, such as whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) couples should be allowed to produce children biologically related to both parents, or whether trans-women who want to experience childbirth should be allowed to receive uterine transplants. Clinicians opposed to offering such technologies to LGBT couples on moral grounds are likely to seek legal shelter through the conscience clauses enshrined in U.S. law. This paper begins by briefly discussing some novel ART on the horizon and noting that it is unclear whether current conscience clauses will permit fertility clinics to deny such services to LGBT individuals. A compromise approach to conscience is any view that sees the value of respecting conscience claims within limits. I describe and critique the constraints proposed in the recent work of Wicclair, NeJaime and Siegel as ultimately begging the question. My purpose is to strengthen their arguments by suggesting that in the controversial situations that elicit claims of conscience, bioethicists should engage with the metaphysical claims in play. I argue that conscience claims against LGBT individuals ought to be constrained because the underlying metaphysic\u2014that God has decreed the LGBT lifestyle to be sinful\u2014is highly implausible from the perspective of a naturalized metaphysic, which ought to be the lens through which we evaluate conscience claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Brummett A. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/bioe.12430\"><span class=\"articleTitle\">Conscience claims, metaphysics, and avoiding an LGBT eugenic<\/span><\/a>. <i>Bioethics<\/i>. <span class=\"pubYear\">2018<\/span>;<span class=\"vol\">00<\/span>:1\u20139.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abram Brummet AbstractNovel assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are poised to present our society with strange new ethical questions, such as whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) couples should be allowed to produce children biologically related to both parents, or whether trans-women who want to experience childbirth should be allowed to receive uterine transplants. 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