The human embryo: a disposable 'mass of cells' or a 'human being'?
| Autor: | Angelo Serra |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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| Zdroj: | Medicina e Morale. 51:63-80 |
| ISSN: | 2282-5940 0025-7834 |
| DOI: | 10.4081/mem.2002.712 |
| Popis: | On 1986, due to the deceptive introduction of the pre-embryo stage in the human development, the new human conceptus was deprived of the dignity of a human being, and degraded to a mass of cells until the 15th day after fertilization. The law itself, under the pressure of a value-free science and a predominant technology, in many Nations resigned. Thus, the early human embryo, on the basis of its minor value in respect to hopefully great therapeutic successes, became a disposable object - up to its destruction -in view of the opening of new fields of research. However, a rigorous analysis of the many steps of the human developmental process during the first two weeks after fertilization, accompanied by a logical induction from the data afforded by the experimental sciences, lead to the sole possible statement that, at the fusion of the two gametes, a new real human individual initiates its own existence or life cycle, during which - given all the necessary and sufficient conditions - it will autonomously realize all the capabilities with which it is intrinsically endowed: Indeed, on the basis of both good science and correct inductive logic, the living human embryo during the first 14 days from conception is not a mere collection of a few cells, but a real human individual, and of the human individual has, consequently, the same dignity and rights. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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