Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The creation and study of brain organoids may hold significant promise for understanding brain functions, disorders, and diseases. This research may also raise novel considerations and ethical concerns, but it has significant public and professional support when thoughtfully undertaken. Current legislative and judicial restrictions on abortion and pronouncements about fetal personhood could, however, have a surprisingly broad and unintended reach, even conceivably restricting the development and use of brain organoids and other biomedical and bioengineered research tools. Brain organoid research thus may constitute a cautionary tale about the risks of performative policy-making.
Source: Ethics & Human Research
DOI: 10.1002/eahr.60017
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,240
OpenAlex ID: W4408454934