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Reply to Savulescu : Why we should maintain a prohibition on destructive research on human embryos
Author(s) -
Tobin B.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2000.tb02058.x
Subject(s) - embryo , epistemology , environmental ethics , law and economics , medicine , philosophy , sociology , biology , genetics
Julian Savulescu argues that destructive experimentation on human embryos is ethically permissible. He attempts to refute objections to such experimentation, and offers an account of the status of the early human embryo according to which it is the kind of entity upon which it is perfectly permissible to experiment. However, his attempts to refute the objections to destructive experimentation on human embryos are unconvincing, and the consequences of his own view of the status of the embryo are counterintuitive.