Author(s)
McCormick, Richard A.Keywords
AbortionBeginning of Life
Embryo Research
Embryos
Ethics
Fetal Development
Fetal Research
Fetuses
Fertility
Life
Moral Obligations
Moral Status
Nontherapeutic Research
Personhood
Public Policy
Research
Rights
Roman Catholic Ethics
Theology
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Abstract
...The moral status -- and specifically the controversial issue of personhood -- is related to attainment of developmental individuality...This contrasts with the view that holds that personhood occurs earlier, at the point of genetic uniqueness. I believe that an embryo that has developed to the point where it can be one individual and one individual only, differs in moral status from a preembryo that has not, even if in many cases we may choose to treat them similarly...In view of the conviction that the preembryo is not yet a person and that its statistical potential for becoming such is small, it is not clear that nontherapeutic experiments can be excluded in principle. However, because the preembryo does have intrinsic potential...the preembryo should be treated as a person...Any exceptions from theDate
2015-05-05Identifier
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Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 1991 Mar; 1(1): 1-15.
1054-6863
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ken.0.0028
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