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KILLING EMBRYOS FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH

2007-02-28

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Abstract: The main objection to human embryonic stem cell research is that it involves killing human embryos, which are essentially beings of the same sort that you and I are. This objection presupposes that we once existed as early embryos and that we had the same moral status then that we have now. This essay challenges both those presuppositions, but focuses primarily on the first. I argue first that these pres...

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Literature Corpus work: 8c481632-2518-5c7e-89d9-87edabb8a29c
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2007.00488.x

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