PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reproductive Rights, Sentience, Stem Cell
16 Dec 2017
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Everybody becomes sterile and can no longer have babies. Stem cells: master cells , can be taken from fetal material to make any other kind of cell. Can provide researchers with clues into cell specialization and possibilities for insight into disease and organ regeneration. The embryo is an early stage human being, and therefore it has moral status. Patrick lee and robert george: as a matter of basic biological fact human embryos are human beings in the earliest stage of their development. Embryos are human beings, they"re just in an early state. Because the embryo is an early stage human being, it has a rational nature - but it must be a potential one. It is more accurate to say that the embryo is potentially able to become a rational being than to just say the embryo is of a rational nature.
