For the Spiritist Doctrine, the value of the human person is rooted in the very origin of life, because it can only be explained through Intelligent Planning, which leads us to the Great Planner and to consider it as a bestowed and unavailable good.

Today, like all advances in the life sciences, researchers have never created life in the laboratory and cannot explain, by mere chance, how atoms become human beings, following such ingenious paths that scientists themselves have such difficulty in discovering.

It is very difficult to explain the functioning of sophisticated structures, such as, for example, the human eye and blood coagulation, by showing, step by step, how such specialised chemical substances came together, by chance, in perfect harmony, in the most complex biochemical reactions in which they participate. In the same way, it is necessary to remember all the other answers that have not yet been given by science, including the origin of the extraordinary cellular machinery.

Today, the arguments, in favour of the given and indispensable life, come from Science itself. The sacredness of Life, therefore, originates from the spiritual principle. Divine and immortal creation, it initiates biogenesis in the crystals, individualising itself, in each new existence, along the phylogenetic scale, until it finally enervates the human body, fantastic machinery, built by itself with the help of the Genius Constructors.

With this much broader and more global vision of the Human Being, it is understood that the Spirit, which animates him, has already been stoned by time, it is not created, therefore, at the instant of conception, the Spirit is linked to the new body, with the purpose of starting a new existential project.

According to spiritual information, the zygote or early embryo does not always have a Spirit presiding over its formation, for the ovum and sperm can unite, without the presence of the soul, only by biological magnetic impulses. In that case nature itself is responsible for discarding the malformed embryo, without undue interference from man.

When dealing with a laboratory-made embryo, it is necessary to be vigilant, because there is a possibility that some perispiritual filament may attach to it. In that case, spiritist researchers need to develop more sophisticated technologies, as yet non-existent, to know if this happens, and can, in that way, work on uncommitted embryos. Without this, any interference is difficult.

If, however, there is a foetus or a human body in gestation, there is a Spirit responsible for its formation, and all its rights must be preserved. The rule, therefore, is not to interfere.

Physical body, Subtle Sheaths and Spirit have well-defined functions, and it is incumbent upon the immortal being to care for all their constituent elements. Each spirit is responsible for its own evolution. The Master Jesus showed the way to all humanity, it is incumbent upon each individual to live and exemplify the lessons of universal love by living the principles of charity and solidarity in his daily life.

For all that we have seen, for the Spiritist Doctrine, the person has an intrinsic, ontological dignity, conferred by the presence of the soul, an immortal element, of divine origin, which needs the physical body to learn and evolve, in continuous progress.

It does not matter whether the being is conscious or not; whether it is a foetus or a sick person in a coma, it is a person and as such must be respected for what it intrinsically is. Abortion, infanticide, manipulation of embryos for eugenic purposes, euthanasia, etc. are therefore unacceptable.

In a final analysis, Life is a bestowed, unavailable Good. And this truth has its basis of sustenance in Science itself, and must, as such, be recognised, guiding man's ethical conduct.