Comment on: "Human Embryo Research Beyond 14 Days? International Perspectives / by Sheetal Soni and Françoise Baylis"
Journal
The Hastings Center for Bioethics
Publisher
Hastings Center
Date Issued
2021
Type
text::Non-primary product
Abstract
Nowadays, in specific fields, much of the evidence from which scientific discourse is based has tended to be replaced by statements, considered axiomatic, called “principles” or “rights”, but arising from consensus, not from anthropological reality, and that is precisely what has happened in the case of the human embryo.
If scientific logic is followed, the absolutely certain probability is that we do not cease to belong to our species at any stage of development, although now under functionalist philosophies, only want to recognize the rights, especially to life, of humans who can reason, interrelate, socialize or suffer, functions that by their stage of development does not correspond to early embryos and therefore, they are measured according to unreal postulates from the laws of the same embryology of development. Currently, although most of the books on the biology of human development point out that the human being begins at conception and this is taught in any University, for many it is not clear what or who an embryo is. ©The author.
If scientific logic is followed, the absolutely certain probability is that we do not cease to belong to our species at any stage of development, although now under functionalist philosophies, only want to recognize the rights, especially to life, of humans who can reason, interrelate, socialize or suffer, functions that by their stage of development does not correspond to early embryos and therefore, they are measured according to unreal postulates from the laws of the same embryology of development. Currently, although most of the books on the biology of human development point out that the human being begins at conception and this is taught in any University, for many it is not clear what or who an embryo is. ©The author.
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