Standards for Staff and Facilities in Departments of Biological Science

The question of when a legal right to life first arises in the course of a human being’s development is pertinent to a variety of contexts, including protection of prenatal life from injury by persons other than the gestational mother, what to do with frozen embryos when the couple who created them divorces, and how to treat children born with severe disabilities, as well as the more familiar context of state regulation, restriction, or prohibition of abortion. This chapter first summarizes social and biological science findings relevant to this question, then details development of legal rules and constitutional doctrine pertaining to abortion regulation before contrasting that with protections for prenatal life in other contexts. It concludes that the most coherent answer to the question when a right to life arises is that the right to life is coextensive with the biological life of the human being, and that a legal right to remain alive arises when a human being comes into existence and continues until it ceases to be a human being—that is, when its life has ended. This might provide justification for greater restrictions on abortion, but that could depend on additional considerations.

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BioChem: A New International and Interdisciplinary Journal

BioChem ◽

10.3390/biochem1010005 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 49-50

Author(s):

Buyong Ma

Keyword(s):

Biological Science ◽

Human Beings ◽

Interdisciplinary Journal

The advances of biological science have fundamentally changed our world and our understanding of human beings [...]

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Inquiry-based learning in immunology: analysis of scientific argument construction by undergraduate students in biological science and health care classes

Journal of Biological Education ◽

10.1080/00219266.2021.1877778 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Paula Seixas Mello ◽

Caio Cotta Natale ◽

Patricia Marzin-Janvier ◽

Leda Quercia Vieira ◽

Daniel Manzoni-de-Almeida

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Biological Science ◽

Inquiry Based Learning ◽

Scientific Argument

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THE VALUE OF SURVEYS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

School Science and Mathematics ◽

10.1111/j.1949-8594.1924.tb02378.x ◽

1924 ◽

Vol 24 (8) ◽

pp. 823-828

Author(s):

George W. Huntér

Keyword(s):

Biological Science

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I. The Croonian Lecture.—On the theory of the vertebrate skull

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London ◽

10.1098/rspl.1857.0090 ◽

1859 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

pp. 381-457 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Biological Science ◽

The Other ◽

Small Space ◽

Half Century ◽

Organic Structure ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

Articles Of Faith ◽

The Mind

The necessity of discussing so great a subject as the Theory of the Vertebrate Skull in the small space of time allotted by custom to a lecture, has its advantages as well as its drawbacks. As, on the present occasion, I shall suffer greatly from the disadvantages of the limitation, I will, with your permission, avail myself to the uttermost of its benefits. It will be necessary for me to assume much that I would rather demonstrate, to suppose known much that I would rather set forth and explain at length; but on the other hand, I may consider myself excused from entering largely either into the history of the subject, or into lengthy and controversial criticisms upon the views which are, or have been, held by others. The biological science of the last half-century is honourably distinguished from that of preceding epochs, by the constantly increasing prominence of the idea, that a community of plan is discernible amidst the manifold diversities of organic structure. That there is nothing really aberrant in nature; that the most widely different organisms are connected by a hidden bond; that an apparently new and isolated structure will prove, when its characters are thoroughly sifted, to be only a modification of something which existed before,—are propositions which are gradually assuming the position of articles of faith in the mind of the investigators of animated nature, and are directly, or by implication, admitted among the axioms of natural history.

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