It is often claimed that from the moment of conception embryos have the same moral status
as adult humans. This claim plays a central role in many arguments against abortion, in vitro …

The intense and extensive debate over human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research has
focused primarily on the moral status of the human embryo. Some commentators assign full …

The readers of EMBO reports will be familiar with the broad outlines of the debate about
whether it is morally acceptable to destroy human embryos for the purposes of medical …

A substantial proportion of human embryos spontaneously abort soon after conception, and
ethicists have argued this is problematic for the pro-life view that a human embryo has the …

Embryonic stem cells, which have the potential to save many lives, must be recovered from
aborted fetuses or live embryos. Although tissue from aborted fetuses can be used without …

The report of the President's Council on Bioethics, Human Cloning and Human Dignity,
addresses the central ethical, political, and policy issue in human embryonic stem cell …

Debates on the moral status of human embryos have been highly and continuously
controversial. For many, these controversies have turned into a fruitless scholastical …

The Morality of Killing Human Embryos Page 1 26 journal of law, medicine & ethics
SYMPOSIUM The Morality of Killing Human Embryos Bonnie Steinbock Embryonic stem cell …

Is it permissible to use a human embryo in stem cell research, or in general as a means for
benefit of others? Acknowledging each embryo as an object of moral concern, Louis M …

Complete moral consensus on the status of the human embryo is neither feasible nor
necessary for the formulation of ethically acceptable public policy for human embryo …