The Right to Life. Legal Status of the Human Embryo
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This paper aims to review the controversial issues in the field of human rights: the status of the human embryo. Since the moment the creation of human embryos in laboratory condition became available, ethical questions continued to arise and emphasize it’s irascible status. During pregnancy the embryo is part of another human being’s body lacking a legal status distinct from that of his mother’s. Defining the right to life and its prime beneficiaries is an important step in gaining a unitary position on a special status of the human embryo. This special legal status derives from the embryo’s recognized potential to become a human being.
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