Similarly, the status of the
human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy
embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for
human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male -
female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which
human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «
human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).
«During development, both male and
female embryos start out having certain fetal tissue called the Müllerian duct mesenchyme,» said Jose Teixeira, professor of reproductive biology in the College of
Human Medicine and lead author of the federally funded study.
This technique is already used with great success for infertile
human couples and involves a single sperm being injected into an egg through a thin glass pipette to create an
embryo which is then transferred to a surrogate
female.