Should we sacrifice embryos to cure people?

• Authors: Francisco Lara
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Medical stem cell research is currently the cause of much moral controversy. Those who would confer the same moral status to embryos as we do to humans consider that harvesting such embryonic cells entails sacrificing embryos. In this paper, the author analyses critically the arguments given for such a perspective. Finally, a theory of moral status is outlined that coherently and plausibly supports the use of embryonic stem cells in therapeutic research.

Keywords

EN

bioethical issues; embryonic structures; embryonic and fetal development; beginning of human life; personhood

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 623-635

Dates

published

2012-10-01

online

2012-09-29

Contributors

author

Francisco Lara

• University of Granada, Faculty of Psychology

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-012-0050-z