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Embryonic Human Life and Dignity: The French Connection

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  • Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis

    (School of Law, University of Sheffield, Bartolomé House, Winter Street, Sheffield S3 7ND, UK)

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Human dignity is considered by a number of commentators as a normative concept that could potentially bridge the gap between bioethics and human rights. The purpose of this article is to question this assumption insofar as it applies to embryonic human life by way of a case study. The article will chart the way dignity has been historically used in French political and legal debates since the 1990s to attempt to afford constitutional protection to human embryos. It then proposes an interpretation of why such attempts failed, which could have wider significance for current debates.

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  • Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis, 2015. "Embryonic Human Life and Dignity: The French Connection," Laws, MDPI, vol. 4(4), pages 1-16, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlawss:v:4:y:2015:i:4:p:755-770:d:60150
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