The Importance of Empirical Research in Bioethics: The Case of Human Embryo Stem Cell Research

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 929-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret A. Somerville
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Stem Cell Research ◽  
Human Embryo ◽  
Empirical Research In Bioethics

How is it Right to Treat the Human Embryo? The Embryo and Stem Cell Research

2003 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-194
Author(s):  
William J. Uren
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Stem Cell Research ◽  
Human Embryo ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Health Ethics

This submission to the Australian Health Ethics Committee considers issues of “respect” and “potential” and argues that the embryo is to be respected because it is nascent and developing human life. Destructive experimentation, even for the purposes of stem cell research, should therefore not be permitted on embryos originally intended for implantation but now surplus to IVF needs. The goals for which they are being destroyed in experimentation are distant and uncertain, and professional practice in IVF now requires that no more than one or at most two embryos should be generated.

Creating Embryos for Use in Stem Cell Research

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan W. Brock
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Stem Cell Research ◽  
Human Embryo ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
Human Embryonic Stem Cell ◽  
Embryonic Stem ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Early Embryos ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Hesc Research

The intense and extensive debate over human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research has focused primarily on the moral status of the human embryo. Some commentators assign full moral status of normal adult human beings to the embryo from the moment of its conception. At the other extreme are those who believe that a human embryo has no significant moral status at the time it is used and destroyed in stem cell research. And in between are many intermediate positions that assign an embryo some degree of moral status between none and full. This controversy and the respective positions, like the abortion controversy, is by now well understood, despite the lack of progress in resolving it. I have argued briefly elsewhere that early embryos do not have significant moral status, but I do not want to reenter that debate here. Instead, I want to focus on an issue that has had relatively little explicit and separate attention, but is likely to loom larger in light of the Obama administration’s partial lifting of the Bush administration’s restriction on the embryos that can be used in stem cell research that receives federal funding.

Commons votes for human embryo stem cell research

BMJ ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 322 (7277) ◽  
pp. 7-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mayor
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Stem Cell Research ◽  
Human Embryo

Research guidelines for embryoids

2021 ◽  
pp. medethics-2020-106493
Author(s):  
Monika Piotrowska
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Stem Cell ◽  
Human Development ◽  
International Society ◽  
Stem Cell Research ◽  
Human Embryo ◽  
Human Embryos ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Research Guidelines ◽  
Research Regulations

Human embryo models formed from stem cells—known as embryoids—allow scientists to study the elusive first stages of human development without having to experiment on actual human embryos. But clear ethical guidelines for research involving embryoids are still lacking. Previously, a handful of researchers put forward new recommendations for embryoids, which they hope will be included in the next set of International Society for Stem Cell Research guidelines. Although these recommendations are an improvement over the default approach, they are nonetheless unworkable, because they rely on a poorly conceived notion of an embryoid’s ‘potential’ to trigger stringent research regulations.

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