Bioethicists’ Warning: Remove the Barriers to Contraception,
for Health of Women and the Planet

k 2024

Bioethicists’ Warning: Remove the Barriers to Contraception, for Health of Women and the Planet

GREGUŠ, Jan

Základní údaje

Originální název

Bioethicists’ Warning: Remove the Barriers to Contraception, for Health of Women and the Planet

Autoři

GREGUŠ, Jan

Vydání

World Congress of Bioethics, Doha, 2024

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60302 Ethics

Stát vydavatele

Katar

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

contraception; women’s health and rights; reproductive ethics; philosophy of overpopulation

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 12. 6. 2024 23:23, Mgr. MUDr. Jan Greguš

Anotace

V originále

Population growth and human overpopulation are frequently given as given and unamendable ("demography is destiny") or amendable, but by unethical means. This presentation shows that the means we have at our disposal are ethical and at the same time very effective. They are the availability of contraception, empowerment of women, education in general, environmental education in particular, and reproductive ethics (of smaller families). The presentation further discusses barriers to these means and what can be done about them. One of the main problems nowadays are barriers in accessing contraception and dropping investments into family planning programs. The relative problem of family planning is that benefits are long-term, and individuals may be unable to see them. That is, however, the purpose of preventive medicine. It is of vital importance that politicians and decision-makers trapped in their short-term myopia realize it. Herein comes philosophy with its long-term perspective, which helps to demonstrate that we need to remove the barriers to contraception, for health of women (contraceptive effect, other positive side effects of contraception) and the planet (curbing population growth, thus mitigating climate change, preventing the destruction of biosphere, species extinction, resource depletion, etc.). As such, support of family planning is ethical, pragmatical and cost-effective.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1412/2023, interní kód MU

Název: Filozofie pro odolnou společnost

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Filozofie pro odolnou společnost

Citovat

GREGUŠ, Jan. Bioethicists’ Warning: Remove the Barriers to Contraception, for Health of Women and the Planet. In World Congress of Bioethics, Doha. 2024.

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GREGUŠ, Jan. Bioethicists’ Warning: Remove the Barriers to Contraception, for Health of Women and the Planet. In \textit{World Congress of Bioethics, Doha}. 2024.

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