blastulae

Finally, the question of the day: if you were in a fertility clinic that was burning down, and you could save either a two-year old child or a petri dish with five blastulae, which would you save?

Archive 2006-03-01 MN Politics Guru 2006

In fact on some potentiality views there is MORE moral reason to save the 5 blastulae than there is to save the 5 2-year-olds, because the blastulae have more of their lives ahead of them than the 2 year olds.

Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong) 2006

If a fire breaks out in a fertility clinic and you can only save a petri dish with five blastulae or a two-year old child, which do you save?

Firedoglake » Unchristened Embryos, Destination: Hell 2006

“Suppose a fire breaks out in a fertility clinic and you can only save a petri dish with five blastulae or zygotes or fertilized eggs or a two-year old child, which should you save?”

Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong) 2006

Your thought experiment comparing the moral value of 5 blastulae and one two year old child assumes that blastulae must have the same value and consciousness as a two year old for it to be morally impermissible to kill them.

Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong) 2006

Mike Stark sent an email to Andrew Wilkow letting him know he was making him famous in the blogosphere with his radio call-in clip about saving the 2 year-old child vs. the 5 blastulae in the burning fertility clinc which quite deservedly got links on Atrios and Kos as well.

Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: We Get Letters 2006

Any fundy will tell you that Heaven is most definitely NOT filled with blastulae.

Firedoglake » Unchristened Embryos, Destination: Hell 2006

This view, however, will in fact entail that blastulae and generally fetuses prior to 20 weeks of gestation have literally NO moral status since they have no mental lives at all, are such that they cannot be psychologically connected to any future, and are such that they are incapable of their lives going better or worse for them.

Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong) 2006

“Instead, the next morning I found in their respective dishes typical, actively swimming blastulae of half size” [Driesch 1892].

Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005

If we compare these permanent blastulae with the free-swimming ciliated larvae or blastulae, with similar construction, of many of the lower animals, we can confidently deduce from them that there was

The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876