Research on the early human embryo has long been recognized as essential to progress in
a host of biomedical areas from reproductive medicine to the treatment of pediatric cancers …

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 …

Respecting What We Destroy: Reflections on Human Embryo Research - MEYER - 2001 -
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The embryo research controversy is a good reminder of the symbolic nature of many
bioethical debates. Aside from persons who believe that personhood begins at conception …

Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics Page 1
EXPERIMENTS IN DEMOCRACY Page 2 Page 3 EXPERIMENTS IN DEMOCRACY Human …

Background This article explores the reasons in favour of revising and extending the current
14-day statutory limit to maintaining human embryos in culture. This limit is enshrined in law …

What factors might account for the extraordinary worldwide interest in the new reproductive
technologies during the past decade? The answer must of necessity be impressionistic …

Legislation designed to control the conduct of research on human embryos was introduced
in Britain in 1990. During the preceding debate, there had been widespread public …

Saving lives versus taking lives: These are the stark terms in which the public regards
human embryo research—a battleground of extremes, a war between science and ethics …

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 …