PHI 2396 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: De Facto, Human Reproduction, Gamete

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Jon Miller

Document Summary

Bioethics in canada chapter one; conception and embryos. Part one; the moral status of stem cells. Human embryonic stem cells: undifferentiated human cells located in the human embryo with the capacity to renew themselves by means of cell division and to develop into more specialized cells; brain, liver cells . Trophoblast: the outer layer of the early embryos which attaches the embryo to the uterine wall and functions as the nutritive pathway" in addition, it plays a role in the development of the placenta. Moral status or moral standing: a conception of moral standing determines the range of beings towards whom moral agents have obligations. Such a conception will tell you the feature or set of features a being must possess to count morally. Example; some argue that if an individual has the capacity to suffer, then that individual has moral standing and therefore moral agents have direct obligations to that individual.