Human Embryo Experimentation

Human Embryo Experimentation | Early Human Embryos Are Not Human Beings

Helga Kuhse is an associate professor in bioethics at Monash University in Clayton, Australia. Peter Singer is the DeCamp Professor of the Princeton University Center for Human Values. Kuhse and Singer are the editors of the book Embryo Experimentation, from which this excerpt is taken.

Summary: The major objections to early embryo human experimentation are problematic. One objection is that a newly fertilized egg is genetically unique as a human being. However, an early embryo may divide at a certain stage, become different cell groups, and...

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