冷冻胚胎的法律属性探析

The Legal Attribute of Frozen Embryos

社会转型期经济的迅猛发展,带动了科技的突飞猛进,一系列在人类伦理纲常接受范围外的生命再生现象开始出现。冷冻胚胎这一新的"物种",对现阶段我国《物权法》中"物"现有的含义提出了挑战,"失独老人"胚胎争夺案将原本属于理论界的问题提到了实践层面。冷冻胚胎的法律属性,成为学术界和实务界争议的焦点。通过论证,冷冻胚胎应定位为具有潜在人格属性的物,其本身并不能脱离现有的物的范畴,只在保护方式上给予倾斜。

The rapid development of economy in the period of social transformation, driven by the science and technology, makes a spurt of progress. Life regenerative phenomenon begins to appear. Frozen embryos, the new ＂species＂, appear, which undoubtedly present new challenges to the existing definition of China＇s Property Law in the current stage. The case ＂Lost only old man＂ fighting for embryos, originally belonging to questions in the theoretical field, was exalted to the practical level. The legal attribute of frozen embryos becomes the focus of academic and practical circles. By means of the demonstration and analysis, frozen embryos should be identified as the object that is provided with the potential attributes of personality, but to tilt on protection.