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...utilizing the “sleeping embryo?? theory, the concept that the female gestation period can range anywhere from six months to five years—an idea contained in the Hadiths, or sayings of the prophet Muhammad—women accused of adultery and facing death by stoning can be defended within the context of Sharia, said Ibrahim, the Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute...
Brock added that the embryo??s potential to become a living being should not give them the same rights as a human being...
...opposed to allowing ‘life and death’ decisions to be so made, he should close down IVF clinics. IVF has been an accepted medical practice since the 1970s, and has helped many couples conceive children. Similarly, it is a noble cause to use the embryo??s cells to help the severely ill, rather than simply discarding the embryo...
...Sandel pointed out, the principled position that holds the potential for human life—such as an embryo??to have the same moral status as a person makes an outright ban on research cloning the only logical option. By voting for a moratorium, the members of the committee sidestepped the crucial issues surrounding the potential for life. If the cloning opponents had been consistent, they would have called for a moratorium on tooth brushing as well...
Tilghman’s lecture focused on genomic imprinting—the “arms race” between the father’s and mother’s genes to control the development of the embryo. Each set of genes tries to control the speed of the embryo??s growth to its own advantage...