Firstly, if personhood depended on the formation and functioning of the heart or brain it would mean someone with brain damage or heart damage does not have full personhood. Personhood begins at conception and not when a particular organ such as the heart or brain appears. What does personhood (being a person) depend on? However if the unborn foetus is a human life then we are engaged in killing a life. Are we terminating a human life, a person or something else like a body appendage? If the unborn foetus is not a human life then there is no need to further debate the issue – no human being is dying. In the same way there is no qualitative difference between a baby and adult – but rather quantitative where the difference is in which stage of development the individual is in.īecause establishing whether the unborn foetus is a human being is the most critical part of the abortion debate. In other words there is no qualitative difference between a foetus or an infant, but rather a quantitative one where the same individual is going through different development stages. So in the case of a human – from conception you have a human being that is developing and maturing and progressing. It is Important to note that development process does not stop when the organism hatches, or is born – rather it takes a different form. From conception you have an organism that is developing, that is alive, this development process continues right throughout its life. Embryology may, in this wider context, consider the mechanisms of both asexual reproduction and regeneration.” (Embryology studies the development of organisms from the moment of conception. Since developmental processes continue beyond these events, the scope of embryology is customarily broadened to encompass the entire life history of an organism. Strictly speaking, the embryonic period ends at metamorphosis, hatching, or birth. An embryo is an immature organism contained within the coverings of an egg or within the body of the mother. Embryology literally means the study of embryos, but this definition is restrictive. “The study of the development of an organism, commencing with the union of male and female gametes. I came across this quote from an article on what the study of embryo development is :
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