Personhood and the embryo

Calum MacKellar  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Aug 2017
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Personhood and the embryo

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Dr Calum MacKellar reflects on the image of God in human beings

Discussions concerning biomedical developments relating to the human embryo never really leave headline news.

Even recently, new debates have arisen concerning the possibility of lifting the 14-day limit during which it is possible to undertaken destructive embryonic research in the UK. This is because scientists are now able to grow embryos beyond such a limit and some are proposing that doing so may be in the interest of biomedical research. But this would then mean reevaluating, yet again, the moral status of early human embryos as if it was something that changed over the years.

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