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PubMed1991

The preembryo as potential: a reply to John A. Robertson.

... In conclusion, let me agree with Robertson that reasonable persons may indeed disagree on concrete conclusions touching preembryo freezing, discard, research, and diagnosis. But it is one of the challenges to reasonable people to give reasons for their conclusions. When Robertson notes that preembryo research "has been found acceptable by most bodies that have examined the subject," he leaves unstated the fact that many of these bodies have not given reasons for their conclusions. This is especially true of the Warnock Committee. It is definitely not true of John Robertson. He has attempted to give analytic support for his rather permissive positions. I find this support too fragile for its assigned task, though I hasten to say that this does not mean that only a totally prohibitive position is defensible or is mine. Prima facie still means prima facie.

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PubMed1990

Final finality in livings from ancient philosophy and medicine to contemporary biomedicine.

In recent years biotechnology has introduced into medicine new possibilities for the manipulation of forms of life, including in vitro fertilization, production of transgenic animals and use of human fetal tissues for therapeutic procedures. This has given rise to a debate on final finality of the beginning human life, which has involved scientific, philosophical, religious as well as legal issues. A report by an English governmental Commission (Warnock Committee, 1984) stated a practical term, e.g. 14 days, during which the so-called preembryo may be useful for research or therapeutics. The time has been chosen on embryological bases (i.e. appearance of nerve-type cells in the primitive streak), whereas a law is claimed to avoid discussions about the time of appearance of sensitivity of embryos. On the other side is the opinion of the Court for Blount County of Tennessee expressed in the rule Davis vs. Davis (1989). While the term preembryo is considered a false distinction between stages of differentiation of human embryos, human life is considered beginning at conception and human embryos not as property. A comparative analysis of medical and philosophical thought before the influence of Christianity shows that, for Hippocrates as well as for Aristotle, final finality of the early embryo leads to consider the human being as a person just when life is blooding. This phase occurs after the milk one or vegetative stage, which is characterized by the property of doubling life when cells are separated, the same stage considered in the rule Davis vs. Davis.

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PubMed1986

Embryo research.

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PubMed1986

Psychological and psychiatric aspects of learning difficulties.

The Warnock Committee (1978) recommended that in the future the educational planning of services for children and young people should be based on the assumption that one in six children at any time and up to one in five at some time in their school career will require some form of special educational provision and the approach should be one of "needs" rather than handicap.

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