write the following: “Moral responsibilities to the fetus in utero have long been discussed in biomedical ethics, and over the last few decades discussion has also focused on moral responsibilities to the embryo created by in vitro fertilization and located in the Petri dish or freezer. Three general positions have emerged regarding the moral status of both the developing fetus in utero and of the embryo in the Petri dish or freezer: (1) mere tissue (with no moral status), (2) potential human life (with some, perhaps intermediate, moral status), and (3) full human life (with full moral status).”
In short, fetuses in utero or elsewhere are thought to have only one of the three possible moral statuses – none at all, an intermediate moral status, or a full moral status. Which theories of moral status support each of these three positions? That is, for each possible moral status of the fetus, show which theories support it and why.
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