Human Embryo Experimentation | Early Human Embryos Are Human Beings
Andrew Sullivan is an independent journalist and author of Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality.
Summary: Arguments that early human embryos—which are destroyed during embryonic stem cell (ES) research—are not human beings and can be subjected to experimentation are flawed. First, the claim that early human embryos, or blastocysts, are not human beings because they cannot live outside the womb or without medical help leads inevitably to the conclusion that adults who are on life support are not human either. Second, arguments that...
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