Perspective Chapter: What about Embryo’s Rights?

Abstract

The scientific associations of human reproduction experienced fundamental change in the twentieth century, with the development of in vitro fertilization for the treatment of infertility. The separation of sex and hi-tech reproduction treatments led to a revolution of gender and similarity relations, while embryo diagnostics led to a shift from scheduling families to planning a child. Furthermore, the presence of fertilized eggs outside the womb is a new form of human life which can be conserved and manipulated and the embryo in the petri dish in laboratory has become the entity of reproductive market, driven by clients and their claim to a right to reproductive choice. These improvements encounter deep-set moral sensitivities of human self-respect and the relation of human beings to their own nature. The conclusion is that the prospect of a posthuman future sounds for an ethic of care and responsibility. This chapter firstly presents these moral approaches briefly, especially regarding interventions in preimplantation-stage embryos in the laboratory, suggesting environmentally suitable laboratory conditions for this entity. Additionally, new suggestions for legitimately suitable regulations takes care precisely embryo’s right, but also embryology laboratory personnel, clinics and parents.