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To the Editor: In his Perspective article on "embryo ethics," Sandel (July 15 issue)¹ argues that "although every oak tree was once an acorn, it does not follow that acorns are oak trees, or that I should treat the loss of an acorn . . . as the same kind of loss as the death of an oak tree. . . . Despite their developmental continuity, acorns and oak trees are different kinds of things." Sandel is right to imply that the debate over the justice of destroying human embryos in biomedical research turns on the question of whether embryos . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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