Should frozen embryos be considered children?
If you can concede that it has some moral value at all, and that the lines appear to you to be very…
It’s got worth, but it’s death is more of a sad thing that’s undesirable, but doesn’t gain the protections of human rights or anywhere near it.I also didn’t say the lines were blurry, I said the issue wasn’t a binary one and that it’s based upon situation. If the intent is for that embryo to become a child later, preservation remains a priority, but if it has to happen, termination is okay. For lab brown embryos that aren’t meant to become a fetus, they have the same moral value as the lab grown embryos of other animals, because they will both never be born. There’s no need for a “just in case” for something that won’t be born in the first place, there’s no nerves to feel pain or gain any assumption it’s conscious enough to care, that would be like worrying about human skin cells “just in case”. Ethicists have even recommended the expansion of the tjmeframe allowing embryo experimentation, because there is nothing to be said about the barely existent matter with human dna that will never amount to a human.
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There is a massive body of scientific evidence that proves that life begins at the point of conception and that human embryos are in fact human beings – they are just much smaller, and look much different, than us. The Alabama Supreme Court ruling that was just conducted removes this moral dilemma by stopping people from using embryos as lab rats for their scientific experiments and research so they can stay in their mother's womb AND BECOME fully-functioning humans beings. And why would a HUMAN embryo have equal value to an ANIMAL embryo – do you not believe that humans are more important than animals?
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And at no point did I disagree with that, however a fully grown human being has a different moral value than a fully grown one. For an embryo, it is a lot less because, to begin with, it will not grow to become a full human, and is incapable of feeling anything at all, much less pain. It has the same value as an animal embryo in my eyes because both will not become human when done in the lab setting, since that was neither the intention, nor the worry at all, and since the embryo won’t feel or think at all, it’s not going to have the same value as a full-grown human.
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Then that creates a moral dilemma for you – are people who are senile, maybe have dementia, and using anaesthetic or painkiller, then fair game to be gunned down in cold blood? After all, they feel no pain and can't form a logical thought!
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I stated the condition of being fully developed, because once they can feel, think, and act for themselves, they get rights, and an embryo can do none of these things and meets none of these prerequisites.
