Embryos without Rights
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Since you believe that embryos are not the kind of being that can have rights, consider the following hypothetical case:

A doctor is doing research on severely retarded children but cannot find enough subjects. He asks a group of pregnant women to allow him to inject the embryos they carry with a special drug that will cause their children to be born almost entirely without brains. They agree, and some months later he has the subjects he needs for his work.

Is it permissible for the doctor and the mothers to do this? If not, why not? If embryos are not the kind of being that can have rights, does it follow that there are no moral limitations on what can be done to them? How would you support your view?

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