THE VALUE OF LIFE OF THE EMBRYO. THE ARGUMENT OF POTENTIALITY TO DEVELOP, AND THE CONTEXT IN WHICH IS EMBEDDED

Abstract

thical and legal discrepancies in the science auditorium over
the status of the embryo has always been interrelated with the
different interpretations and applied practices of the never ending
story about the beginning of the human life. This eternally mystical
question has been tackled from philosophers, ethicists and lawyers,
but what urges for a precise resolution is the scientific immense
progress towards introduction of new ways of life–creating.
The moral status of the human embryo, and therefore the definition of
personhood represent core issue for the ethical debate around the
techno sciences. By fixing a broader or narrower concept of the
human person, the group of human beings that hold an ontological
status can be enlarged or diminished.