The Social Trends Institute is pleased to announce the publication release of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life (Doubleday, 2008, $23.95), by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen. The book was financially supported by STI and the following description comes from its publisher:
“Typically, right-to-life arguments have been based explicitly on moral and religious grounds. In Embryo, the authors eschew religious arguments and make a purely scientific and philosophical case that the fetus, from the instant of conception, is a human being, with all the moral and political rights inherent in that status. As such, stem cell research that destroys a viable embryo represents the unacceptable taking of a human life.”
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Read a New York Times review of Embryo.
About the Authors:
Robert P. George, a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, is a professor of jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is the author of Making Men Moral, In Defense of Natural Law, and The Clash of Orthodoxies. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Christopher Tollefsen is an associate professor in the department of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, the director of the graduate program in philosophy, and author of the forthcoming Biomedical Research and Beyond. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina.
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