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It is special responsibility of parents that they at least refrain from performing act that cause terrible harm to their children. Parents have responsibility to make sacrifices for their children then if voluntarily not assumed or given consent to personal relationship with child.
I have a duty to do something with my life that contributes to the good of the human community. Harm caused is worse than harm avoided Abortion involves distribution of something we have no right to destroy. Abortion is morally impermissible because it is murder. The fetus claimed is person not just a life, creature of full moral status imbued with fundamental rights Abortion is violation of right to life.
2 weeks - blastocyst cluster of 140 cells. 6 weeks - embryo 12 weeks - fetus
Abortion involves not just loss of hopes of various parties have invested in pregnancy but loss of something valuable in its own right grief sorrow that life begun is now ended or actions needed to help those cells develop into person would have compromised.
* Morality of early abortion involves assessing not just welfare but intimacy not just destruction but creation.
All human embryo clonning. cloned upto blastocyst is invention 135 years ago u.s. abolished slavery making it illegal for any human being to own another human being as property after births. Now British patent office has opened the door in which a developing human being can be owned in the form of intellectual property in gestational stages between conception & birth.
It is shocking company might be able to own a human embryo as an invention.
If human embryo as an invention if cloned human embryos are in fact considered to be the human inventions then what becomes of our notion God the creator? What will future generation say when their children ask where do babies come from? Will they say they are invention of scientists & property of life science companies?
It is neither slavery nor possibility of physical ownership of human individual. : Amendment of U.K. came into force on July 2000 provides. 1. An invention shall not be considered unpatentable solely on ground. a. product consisting of or containing biological material.
b. A process by which biological material produced possessed or
used. 2. Biological material which is isolated from its natural environment or produced by means of technical process may be the subject of an invention even if it previously occurred in nature.
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