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Good parents would not fulfil their obligation to genetically enhance their unborn children
- Correspondence to Ryan Tonkens, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Room S426 Ross Building, Toronto ON M3J 1P3, Canada; tonkens{at}yorku.ca
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Good parents would not fulfil their obligation to genetically enhance their unborn children
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- Received November 8, 2010
- Revised March 15, 2011
- Accepted April 3, 2011
- First published May 5, 2011.
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April 27, 2016
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