title: [The embryo, the human and the humanized].
abstract: Since the moment of fecundation the human embryo is endowed with the properties of unity and uniqueness and its existence is therefore inviolable. Disputing arguments against this thesis are analyzed. Recent views of some biologists negate the human character to the embryo since the essence of a human being would be its cultural nature and ability to communicate. However, the embryo contains all the genetic information that will allow him to develop the ability to communicate. Any attempt to separate the 3 moments of time, past present and future is a definitive violation of ethics. A basic foundation of ethics is that present and future are implicit in the past and vice-versa. Finally, the idea that the unwanted child is not a cultural being should be discarded.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roa
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced; D001675:Bioethics; D002676:Child, Unwanted; D015925:Cryopreservation; D003469:Culture; D004624:Embryo Transfer; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005053:Eugenics; D005065:Euthanasia; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus; D015894:Genome, Human; D006806:Human Rights; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy
vernacular_title: El embrión, lo humano y lo humanizado.