Su alcune questioni riguardanti la responsabilità morale nei confronti degli embrioni umani

Abstract

Referring to the practices of artificial insemination, experimentation on stem cells and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, in an essay published in "Bioethics. Interdisciplinary journal", John Harris and Simona Giordano defined the concern for the fate of human embryos as a concern not only "morbid and irrational" but also "hypocritical and unsustainable" Actually, while those who fight for the dignity of the homeless, the malnourished, the workers etc. fights against a reality that is in fact hostile to the promotion of that dignity, but which is not hostile in principle, in the sense that no one theorizes the idea that the homeless, the malnourished and the workers are not human beings like us and therefore not have human rights, in the case of embryos, however, those who fight for their rights find themselves faced with interlocutors who not only effectively hinder the recognition of that dignity, but who also theorize its denial in principle. In short, concern for the fate of human embryos will appear all the more "morbid" the more insistent the attempt to philosophically justify their suppression is.