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Abstract: The study deals with the question of using excedentary human
pre-embryos produced for in vitro fertilization for experimentation
purposes. A first section analyzes the pertinent official teaching of the
Roman Catholic Church, which claims that pre-embryos have to receive
the same protection outside or inside the mother’s body that is due to
innocent persons. The Church does not state explicitly that they are in fact
human persons, but referring to the evidence of life-sciences affirms that
they carry a genetic code, which determines their individual characteristics
and directs their continuous development to full personhood.
Consequently, unrestricted protection is due to them lest we expose
ourselves to the danger of destroying innocent human life. In the second
part the paper analyzes the evidence of life sciences, and finds that the
empirical evidence is not convincing, it needs critical interpretation, and
there is no consensus among the experts on this question. Recent evidence
suggests that the genetic code has to be activated by an intensive information
exchange with the maternal environment to initiate the process of
individualization. The third part draws conclusions and articulates a
strong probability confirmed by already available scientific evidence that
without establishing this relationship with the maternal environment a
zygote will never become a newborn child. |
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