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• Fletcher’s situation ethics is not in principle opposed to any of these procedures. Humans are (in Fletcher’s view) makers, selectors and designers, so if adequate controls are in place then there is no reason why humans should not be redesigned to banish disease and to improve the species.
• Control of a child’s sex by cloning, to avoid any one of 50 sex-linked genetic diseases, or to meet a family’s survival need, might be justifiable. - Fletcher
• For Fletcher, the good for ‘actual persons’ is more important than the good for ‘potential persons’.