RT Article
T1 Frozen embryos and the obligation to adopt
JF Bioethics
VO 34
IS 8
SP 857
OP 861
A1 Blackshaw, Bruce P.
A1 Colgrove, Nicholas
A2 Colgrove, Nicholas
A2 Lovering, Rob
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1735929441
AB Rob Lovering has developed an interesting new critique of views that regard embryos as equally valuable as other human beings: the moral argument for frozen human embryo adoption. The argument is aimed at those who believe that the death of a frozen embryo is a very bad thing, and Lovering concludes that some who hold this view ought to prevent one of these deaths by adopting and gestating a frozen embryo. Contra Lovering, we show that there are far more effective strategies for preserving the lives of frozen embryos than adoption. Moreover, we point out that those who regard the deaths of frozen embryos as a very bad thing will generally regard the deaths of all embryos as a very bad thing, whether they are discarded embryos, aborted embryos or embryos that spontaneously abort. This entails that these other embryos must be taken into account when considering moral obligations, as well as other human lives at risk from preventable causes.
K1 Peter Singer
K1 comparable moral significance
K1 embryo adoption
K1 frozen human embryo
DO 10.1111/bioe.12733