title: Real protection for the embryo.
abstract: This article fundamentally analyses the current protection that the Italian law offers to the embryo. Likewise, the author, contrary to those who are of the opinion that the embryo is a person subject to law, exposes his polemic theory in which he places the embryo within the scope of things. Specifically, he argues that the embryo has a quasi-personal category. In order to justify this, he analyses the moral and legal history of the statute of the embryo, he makes a difference between the biological life and the legal life. The author establishes that the concept of the person has been and will continue to be a very controversial concept, concluding with a study on the Italian legislation in respect to the protection of the embryo.
authors.affiliation: University of Siena, Fiesole, Italy.
authors.forename: Cosimo Marco
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Mazzoni
mesh_terms: D004622:Embryo, Mammalian; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D028723:Personhood