A Critical Examination of the Question of Personhood in Stem Cell Research

IOSR Journal of HumanitieS and Social Science 21 (8):6-13 (2016)
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Stem cell research programme has been celebrated world over as the most promising medical research in the 21st century. However, the method of stem cell research involves the use and unavoidable destruction of human embryo. As a result of this, many theologians, scholars and analysts have condemned the research programme. Their argument is that the embryo use in stem cell research is human person; hence it is immoral. This paper therefore aims at analyzing and examining the issue in order to establish the veracity or otherwise of the moral argument articulated against stem cell research.

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Diana-Abasi Ibanga
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