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Potentiality plays an important role in bioethical debates concerning embryos andfetuses. In these debates, “conservatives” tend to attributeethical significance to an organism’s potential for human life, whereas“liberals” are likely to deny both the logical coherence of theconcept and its ethical significance. Whether favorable or critical, both sidesof the debate have had in mind a very specific sense of potentiality, namely,natural potentiality, a pre-given  telos  awaiting to unfold.This Article argues that an equally important and novel sense of potentiality isat play in these cases, namely, techno-potentiality, a power that medicaltechnology extracts from the organism and holds in-reserve for future use.Examining three bioethical debates, brain-death pregnancy, fetus viability, andpre-implanted embryos, the Article demonstrates the importance oftechno-potentiality for understanding how these debates have come about.Understanding the emergence of a new kind of potentiality is as ethicallysignificance as is resolving the bioethical dilemmas to which it gives rise.

Beyond Natural Potentiality: Brain-Death Pregnancy, Viable Fetuses, and Pre-implanted Embryos