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Embryo Research: Are There Any Lessons from Natural Reproduction?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2004

JULIAN SAVULESCU
Affiliation:
Julian Savulescu, Ph.D., is Uehiro Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of Oxford, England, Director of the Oxford Center for Applied Ethics, and Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics

Extract

John Harris gives a comprehensive and generally valid defense of embryo research. Although nearly all his arguments are valid, one—the argument comparing natural reproduction to embryo research—is problematic in several important ways. I focus here on that argument.

Type
THE GREAT DEBATES
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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