CHAPTER 10: The embryo, a particular thing

Abstract

The voluntary termination of pregnancy, authorized by Law No. 75-17 of January 17, 1975, is an essential achievement for women, which has enabled them to free themselves from their reproductive functions. At the same time, this leads to an interest in the qualification of the embryo whose life the woman decides to terminate. Is he a thing or a nobody? In fact, in law, everything is nobody. In application of this summa divisio, what does not fall under the main category of person, necessarily falls into the residual category of thing. And yet no definition of a person is given in the Civil Code.