Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2014
Abstract
The paper addresses arguments in the recent philosophical and bioethical literature claiming that social and cultural benefits can justify non-therapeutic male infant circumcision. It rejects these claims by referring to the open future argument, according to which infant circumcision is morally unjustifiable because it violates the child’s right to an open future. The paper also addresses an important objection to the open future argument and examines the strength of the objection to refute the application of the argument to the circumcision case.
Comments
This article was originally published in Res Publica, available at DOI 10.1007/s11158-014-9254-x.