Sentences with phrase «status of the human embryo»

(5) We must consider the status of the human embryo in research.

An Enquiry into the Status of the Human Embryo in the Christian Tradition by David Albert Jones, Continuum, 266pp, # 16.99 The aspect...

Human Rights and Human Dignity Pope John Paul once mused that his pontificate was unlikely to be remembered, but that if it was he hoped to be remembered as «the pope of the family».11 In addition to grappling with the status of the human embryos, both DV and DP deal at length with questions relating to aspects of in - vitro fertilisation and the integrity of marriage.

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).

15 The Future The status of the human embryo is essentially a matter of human rights, and thus can not be seen in isolation: life itself is a fundamental right without which all other rights become meaningless.

In our November / December 2006 issue we published a mainly positive review by Edmund Nash of the important The Soul of the Embryo: An enquiry into the status of the human embryo in the Christian Tradition by David Albert Jones.

Whilst acknowledging that many questions remain unanswered in the debate between those who would advocate the use of stem cells taken from human embryos, and those experimenting on stem cells drawn from tissues of the adult human body, there is a lengthy discussion of the moral status of the human embryo as being a crucial matter in this regard.

In response to an amendment to this Bill seeking to clarify the legal status of the human embryo, a former Lord Chancellor stated, «An embryo is not a chattelA human entity which is living is not a chattel and neither is it a person in any ordinary senseIt is wrong to try and define a human embryo in terms of established legal definitions which are plainly inapplicable to human embryos.

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It is important to note that the lethal use of the embryo, for example, does not diminish its human status, according to Grobstein.

Since 1869, the Catholic church has regarded the embryo as having the status of a human being from the moment of conception.

The NIH Human Embryo Research Panel's chief ethicist, Professor Ronald Green, proposed that the intelligent and articulate members of a society should vote on whether other members of the species deserve the status of «personhood.»

Maybe you believe that human embryos are different in a morally significant way from other human cells, even if you don't think that they have the status of born humans, or even fetuses.