Abstract
The moral status of the human embryo is a powerful formal concept in the bioethical repertoire and, at the same time, a cultural construct of great symbolic weight within the social mindscape, shaped not only by specifically bioethical considerations but also by the narratives propounded by a series of agents, most prominently the scientific community and the churches of certain moral-religious beliefs. Counterpoised are the frame on the embryo derived from the minimalistic, analytical, value-free, instrumental perspective characteristic of scientific research, and the frame sustained, with diverse voices, by the churches and their doctrinal traditions, comprising an ontology and values that accord the dignity of an individual human being to any human biological entity post-fertilization.
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