What is the legal status in Europe of human embryos?
- 9 years ago
In this edition of Utalk the question is from Eva in Paris: “In Europe, what is the legal status of human embryos?”
The response is from Carine Brochier from the “European Institute of Bioethics in Brussels“http://www.ieb-eib.org/en/:
“So far, the question of the embryo’s legal status is not yet completely settled as we can see through a “recent judgement by the European Court of Human Rights”.http://www.euronews.com/2015/08/28/european-court-upholds-italy-law-against-embryo-research/
“In the case of “Parrillo versus Italy”. In law, we generally have two categories: things or objects and persons.
“So the question is whether embryos are considered as things or as persons. With this judgement the European Court of Human Rights has just indicated that in no case embryos can be considered as goods, as a thing. At the same time, the court did not say either that embryos are to be considered as persons.
Things or persons
“So its understood that the issue is still under consideratio
The response is from Carine Brochier from the “European Institute of Bioethics in Brussels“http://www.ieb-eib.org/en/:
“So far, the question of the embryo’s legal status is not yet completely settled as we can see through a “recent judgement by the European Court of Human Rights”.http://www.euronews.com/2015/08/28/european-court-upholds-italy-law-against-embryo-research/
“In the case of “Parrillo versus Italy”. In law, we generally have two categories: things or objects and persons.
“So the question is whether embryos are considered as things or as persons. With this judgement the European Court of Human Rights has just indicated that in no case embryos can be considered as goods, as a thing. At the same time, the court did not say either that embryos are to be considered as persons.
Things or persons
“So its understood that the issue is still under consideratio