Review article
https://doi.org/10.31337/oz.71.4.5
The Human Being in the Embryonic Development Stage
Mirjana Radan
orcid.org/0000-0002-6936-9450
; The Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies of The University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Despite the declarative protectedness of the human person and his primary constitutional
rights to life guaranteed by multiple conventions and declarations, the
ontological status of the human embryo has been disputed in its prenatal stage by
various bioethical and anthropological paradigms such that it can be dealt with autonomously
by various pragmatic interests of the right to self–determination or in
biomedical research.
The aim of this paper is highlight the fact that man is a being of exceptional biological
beauty, inviolable sanctity and dignity, and that his life and health must
not be tampered with through unacceptable methods of human reproduction. On
the basis of scientific, expert and experiential universal human factors, on the basis
of multi–level (body, psyche, spirit) interdisciplinary studies (dialogue on an equal
level among various sciences), the rate of benefit and harm (cost–benefit) which they
cause, on the basis of common sense, the convergence of various factors toward the
same focal point of observation of the human being, it is imperative that man be
protected from birth to natural death.
Keywords
human embryo; development of man; dignity of human reproduction
Hrčak ID:
171029
URI
Publication date:
19.12.2016.
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