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SUMMARY:Graduate Talk: Ethics of Gestational Conscription - Akari Matsuok
 a (Uehiro Oxford Institute)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260213T141500Z
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DESCRIPTION:A significant number of countries face a demographic crisis ma
 rked by declining birth rates and rapid population aging\, creating long-t
 erm challenges for economic and social sustainability. States have pursued
  measures such as immigration and financial incentives for childbearing\, 
 but with limited effect. Against this backdrop\, this paper introduces the
  concept of gestational conscription\, a policy under which the state obli
 gates individuals to bear children\, and examines its ethical permissibili
 ty by analogy with military conscription. Military conscription imposes si
 gnificant personal burdens to maintain sovereignty and security\, and gest
 ational conscription is analogous in serving the collective good. If milit
 ary conscription is generally permissible\, and if the analogy holds\, ges
 tational conscription may be ethically justifiable under certain condition
 s. At the same time\, it raises ethical concerns unique to compulsory chil
 dbearing. This paper seeks to shed light on an underexamined and often rep
 ugnant proposal and to clarify its ethical implications.\nSpeakers:\nAkari
  Matsuoka (Uehiro Oxford Institute)
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