Embryo A Defense of Human Life

Name: Embryo A Defense of Human Life
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ISBN: 9780385522823

ISBN-10: 0385522827

ISBN-13: 9780385522823

Edition: 2008

Authors: Robert P. George, Christopher Tollefsen

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The bitter national debates over abortion, euthanasia, and stem cell research have created an unbridgeable gap between religious groups and those who insist that faith-based views have no place in public policy. Religious conservatives are so adamantly opposed to stem cell research in particular that President Bush issued the first veto of his presidency over a bill that would have provided federal funding for such research. Now, in this timely consideration of the nature and rights of human embryos, Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen make a persuasive case that we as a society should neither condone nor publicly fund embryonic stem cell research of any kind. Typically,…

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List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/8/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English




What Is at Stake in the Embryo Experimentation Debate



The Facts of Embryology



Dualism and Persons



Moral Philosophy and the Early Human Being



Moral Dualism



New Objections to the Humanity of the Early Embryo



Further Challenges



Conclusion


Notes


Index