Kahn A
Unité de Recherches en Physiopathologie et Pathologie Génétique moléculaire-Unité 129 de l'INSERM-CHU Cochin Port Royal, 24 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques-75014 Paris.
Bull Acad Natl Med. 2000;184(6):1221-6.
Embryo definition is without any ambiguity: it consists in a stage of development able to give rise to an autonomous organism. In this sense, it is obvious that human embryos could be produced by cloning. If the therapeutic prospects of therapeutic cloning are confirmed, there will be a tension between two ethical logics: to respect human embryos as possible persons ... and to improve the condition of severely affected patients. Whatever the definitive solution, its moral significance should be denied. In contrast, it seems possible to use spare embryons for selected research without considering them only as things.
它是发育的一个阶段，能够发育成一个自主的生物体。从这个意义上说，显然人类胚胎可以通过克隆产生。如果治疗性克隆的治疗前景得到证实，那么在两种伦理逻辑之间将会存在紧张关系：将人类胚胎视为可能的人加以尊重……以及改善重症患者的状况。无论最终的解决方案是什么，其道德意义都应该被否定。相比之下，似乎有可能将多余的胚胎用于特定研究，而不仅仅将它们视为物品。
