[The legal concept of personhood in Colombia: are there biological reasons to change it?].

Rev Derecho Genoma Hum

Grupo de Investigación en Genética Humana Aplicada, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia.

Published: May 2005

Nowadays, as a consequence of scientific advances in embryology, genetics and assisted reproduction techniques, the scientific community ask for new laws to establish new parameters to use with these recent discoveries. Discoveries that have changed the legal concept of "person". In many countries this concept is absolutely useless when facing new techniques such as cloning, stem cell research and embryo storage. That is why it is necessary to change its definition to guarantee the right to life and give a better protection to human embryos.

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