The article analyzes human rights discourses in debates regarding abortion and human embryonic stem cell research as a part of the process of biosociality. These questions arise in the health and reproductive field and move into the realm of the law because of ethical issues. The text examines discourses regarding the transformation of embryos and fetuses into subjects of rights in the context of the Supreme Court: the legal move for unconstitutionality against Biossecurity Law that authorized stem cell extraction from supernumerary embryos created through assisted reproduction (ADI 3510), and the legal case that proposes to include in legal abortion anticipated parturition of anencephalous fetuses (ADPF 54).
human rights; biosociality; abortion of anencephalous; human embryonic stem cells; ADI 3510; ADPF 54