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Originally posted by Black Dragon:
Well, you have to kill it to get at these cells, do you not?
This is not an animal embryo or anything of the sort (Even though animals do have rights): this is a living human being, or the beginning of one rather, just like you and I. We all started out as embryos, just like this one.
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Which cells? Stem cells? It probably wouldn't need to be killed, but it may disable it.
The reason humans have special rights is that humans made the rules, and humans like humans. Humans like humans because they like their same species but what's to stop us extending our liking to all primates, all mammals, all animals even? (I want an answer to that)
On the basis of my last question we could quite easily extend the rights to all organisms. But with rights come responsibilities. I don't think imprisoning bears and snails would be a great idea though.