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The Beginning of Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Richard Harries
Richard Harries
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Bishop of Oxford
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There are a number of ethical issues connecting with the beginning of life, most obviously abortion and most recently research on embryos. These issues have a number of aspects, particularly in relation to fertility treatment and genetic manipulation but they all assume answers to prior questions about what it is to be a human being and when it is that an entity, to use a neutral term, is accorded the full protection due to a human person. So it is that in this first lecture I will be concentrating on souls, persons and embryos.

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Research Article
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 27 , July 2000, pp. 396 - 407
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2000

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