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Moral uncertainty and the farming of human-pig chimeras

29 Jun 2019

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It may soon be possible to generate human organs inside of human-pig chimeras via a process called interspecies blastocyst complementation. This paper discusses what arguably the central ethical concern is raised by this potential source of transplantable organs: that farming human-pig chimeras for their organs risks perpetrating a serious moral wrong because the moral status of human-pig chimeras is uncertain,...

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PMID: 31256005
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2018-105227

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