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    Parents already shape children's futures through values, ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Genetic interventions that narrow but do not eliminate a child's future options are morally permissible.

    Parents already shape children's futures through values, education, and religion without moral objection.

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    Constraints on parental reproductive decisions about what traits to choose can also be seen as conflicting with reproductive freedom and parental autonomy. For instance, Green (2007) rejects the “right to an open future” language in part because he thinks parents must be allowed to do things that are more for their own interests than for the sake of their children, even when doing so affects how the children develop. Following William Ruddick (2007), he thinks of parents as both guardians and ga

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