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11765762

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-12-17
pubmed:abstractText
'When did I, a human person, begin to exist?' In developing an answer to this question, I utilize a Thomistic framework, which holds that the human person is a composite of a biological organism and an intellective soul. Eric Olson and Norman Ford both argue that beginning of an individual human biological organism occurs at the moment when implantation of the zygote in the uterus occurs and the 'primitive streak' begins to form. Prior to this point, there does not exist an individual human organism, but a cluster of biological cells which has the potential to split and develop as one or more separate human organisms (identical twinning). Ensoulment (the instantiation of a human intellective soul in biological matter) does not occur until the point of implantation. This conception of the beginning of human personhood has moral implications concerning the status of pre-implantation biological cell clusters. A new understanding of the beginning of human personhood entails a new understanding of the morality of certain medical procedures which have a direct affect on these cell clusters which contain human DNA. Such procedures discussed in this article are embryonic stem cell research, in vitro fertilization, procured abortion, and the use of abortifacient contraceptives.
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pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
E
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0269-9702
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
KIE
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
134-57
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
The beginning of personhood: a Thomistic biological analysis.
pubmed:affiliation
Saint Louis University
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article