{"id":4648,"date":"2023-11-02T10:45:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2023-11-02T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:45:13","slug":"wheres-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2023\/11\/02\/wheres-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s the line?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extent to which <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-and-technology\/2023\/11\/01\/lab-grown-models-of-embryos-increasingly-resemble-the-real-thing?utm_campaign=r.science-newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&amp;utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&amp;utm_term=2023111&amp;utm_content=best-of-article-link-1&amp;etear=science_nl_1&amp;utm_campaign=r.science-newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&amp;utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&amp;utm_term=11\/1\/2023&amp;utm_id=1805339\">lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the real thing<\/a><\/em>\u00a0confirms my expectation that we&#8217;ll eventually discover how any human cell has the potential for becoming, with the appropriate stimulus and environment, first a stem cell, then a blastocyst, an embryo, a fetus, and finally a fully independent human being &#8211; which raises some challenges for the &#8220;right to life&#8221; thesis that all such things should be entitled to the same level of protection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extent to which lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the real thing\u00a0confirms my expectation that we&#8217;ll eventually discover how any human cell has the potential for becoming, with the appropriate stimulus and environment, first a stem cell, then a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2023\/11\/02\/wheres-the-line\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4650,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions\/4650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}