Proponents of embryo-destructive research, abortion, and abortifacient contra ceptives
sometimes worry about tensions between competing intuitions. There is, first, the intuition …

People are sometimes surprised to hear that the wrongness of destroying a human embryo
does not ultimately depend on when that embryo might become a person, or when he or she …

This essay addresses the moral status of the human embryo. It asserts that on the basis of
biology and metaphysics, the human embryo should be accorded full moral status, that is …

Changing ingrained ways of thinking about the moral status of members of our species is
often a difficult business—in no small part because of often counterintuitive social …

The three quotations at the beginning of this essay introduce and illustrate the range of
divergent viewpoints on the ontological and moral status of the human embryo from the …

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 …

Is the human embryo a person? The answer to this question is found in the sciences of
biology and philosophy, but for practical purposes, the answer has significant implications …

It is an undeniable empirical fact that a human fetus is a member of the species homo
sapiens from the moment of conception. There is thus an important sense in which it is a …

There seems little doubt that if something has the potential to be valuable then there is good
prima facie reason to value it. One values the unimpressive brown objects that one plants in …

This paper analyzes the reasoning and conclusions concerning the morality of “rescuing”
frozen embryos as outlined in Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life by Professor …