Corrigendum to: Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction

Abstract

Battisti, D. (2023). Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction. Bioethics, 37(5), 449–461. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13150.

The name ‘McDougall’ is incorrectly spelled as ‘McDougal’ on pages 453 and 454.

The phrase ‘focus-agent focus’ on page 454 is incorrect and should read ‘future-agent focus’.

The part of the sentence "implies the prospective parents" should be replaced with "commits", and the word "have" in the same sentence should be replaced with "having". This sentence should read: "Considering this, we can recognize that the parent-child relationship argument commits procreators to having attitudes and intentions that are not in contrast with the desires and hopes that their children's lives go well and that they are safe from suffering" paragraph 4, page 456.

The word ‘having’ should be replaced with ‘parenting’ in the final paragraph of page 455. This sentence should read: ‘On the one hand, the distinction between creating and parenting a child enables us to justify the fact that the beginning of a parent–child relationship is also morally relevant in the procreative context’.

The word ‘having’ should be replaced with ‘creating’ on the first line of page 456. This sentence should read: ‘To explain the moral relevance of the distinction between creating and parenting a child let us consider again the example of the couple that, through PGD plus IVF, deliberately select a child with a disability D’.