Real protection for the embryo.
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.
Mazzoni
Cosimo Marco
CM
University of Siena, Fiesole, Italy.
D004622:Embryo, Mammalian; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D028723:Personhood