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Yesterday’s case addressed whether Benally could act as a legal representative of the council and whether the U.S. corporate law definition of “corporate personhood??—which would allow her to act in such a position in an American court—could be incorporated into the court’s deliberations...
...cells is currently hindered by the absence of a common lexicon with which to delineate the profound ethical questions involved. For example: Are frozen embryos whole human beings, or are they somehow less than human? If the latter, when do embryos officially pass the threshold of “personhood??? Moreover, if blastocysts are not miniscule human lives, then what exactly are they...
...difficulty with this argument, however, is that every definition of personhood??save the basic biological one—breaks down upon careful inspection. An embryo isn’t self-aware, sure, but neither is a 13-year-old boy in a coma. Can we kill him without qualm or sanction? An embryo can’t feel pain, admittedly—but if you give me enough drugs, neither can I. Do we excuse a murderer who first administers a merciful dose of morphine? An embryo can’t survive on its own, doubtless?...
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