Category: Human Embryos

By Wesley J. Smith  Back when embryonic-stem-cell and other types of experimentation on early embryos commenced, “the scientists” promised they would always limit their activities to embryos in Petri dishes to the maximum of 14 days in development. Just a collection of undifferentiated cells, they sophistically maintained. We’ll stop when the nervous system begins to develop. …

By Dave Andrusko After court battles in three jurisdiction, an Arizona woman, at least for now, has been denied the opportunity to implant her frozen embryos. In its ruling last week, the Supreme Court of Arizona pointed to the contract Ruby Torres signed at the fertility clinic with her then-boyfriend (later husband, later ex-husband) John …

May be destroyed over father’s objections By Wesley J. Smith Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm … unites with a female gamete or oocyte…to form a single cell. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual. (p. 18) — …