Value: Objections
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Here, as with the potentiality argument, it is important to decide whether it is the current properties of a thing, or the properties it has the potential to develop, that determine its capacity to have rights. The same cloning example is relevant. If we could clone any human cell into a complete human person, does that give every cell the value of a potential person? If that value confers a strong right to life, it would seem that every human cell has it. Even if we consider only cells that have begun to develop into people we still have a problem. For example, if we put a cell from a finger into the cloning machine and start the process, does it acquire the rights of a person (or something close to those rights)? How would you respond?

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