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<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Typically, right-to-life arguments have been based explicitly on moral and religious grounds. In <i>Embryo</i>, the authors eschew religious arguments and make a purely scientific and philosophical case that the fetus, from the instant of conception, is a human being, with all the moral and political rights inherent in that status. As such, stem cell research that destroys a viable embryo represents the unacceptable taking of a human life.</p> <p>There is also no room in their view for a “moral dualism

Who reads Embryo: a Secular Defense of Life?

Author

Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen

Publisher

Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385522823

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Biology

Rating

4.01 / 5 (65 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14