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PROCREAREA SI ÎNCEPUTUL VIETII
PROCREATION AND THE BEGINNING OF LIFE

Author(s): John Breck
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: human life; procreation; fertilization; embryo; genetic individuality.

Summary/Abstract: Various proposed responses to the problem discussed at length the appropriate attitude often expressed political agenda or social and also cultural knowledge about embryonic development. The suggestions relate, in turn, when the mother feels for the first time the baby moving in her womb, when the fetus can survive outside the uterus (usually after 24 weeks), at the time of birth, the child begins to breathe alone, or a period of several days after birth, when baby has demonstrated the right to life (meaning, among other things, the absence of any disease or disorder psycho-somatic). The expand distance between the “beginning of human life” and the time of fertilization, the opening to expand and abortion, infanticide and embryo experiments.

  • Issue Year: 54/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 49-60
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian