Another example of a lesson of bioethical education in high school, namely in „Health Education”- an optional
course in the biology curriculum for the 11th grade, is „In vitro fertilization”. This lesson is based on a heuristic
strategy, mainly the discussion method. The dialogue with the young students, is based on the following questions
that require thinking: „What is the status of the human embryo?”; „Is a period of human life, or a group of soulless
cells?”; „When does a human being become a moral instance?”. The overwhelming majority students from
„I.L.Caragiale” National College of Bucharest involved in research actively participated in discussions, showing
epistemological interest and curiosity. In ancient oriental traditions human age is calculated from the moment of
conception, while in western culture is considered that life starts from the moment of birth. For a long time, doctors
acknowledged life as such only after the first movements of the fetus. Soul problem causes heated discussions in the
religious dogmas. According to contemporary Christian theory, the soul is a divine gift, is assigned to the embryo
even at conception. Paradoxically, while hundreds of women choose daily to abort, others go to all lenghts (and
sometimes unacceptable) to become pregnant. The fate of frozen embryos is in the midst of heated debate today.
Most times they are abandoned by couples involved in artificial insemination. Thousands of embryos are stored
today in Human Embryos Banks and specialists do not want to take responsibility for the decision on the fate of the
„geno-fund reserve". Moral problems arise from the possibilities available today which are being heard more and
more strongly in the literature of the kind: long-term freezing can overturn the entire human reproductive behavior
by changing the laws of heredity; embryo banks can offer grandmother's granddaughter an embryo or a daughter
will be able to have her sister as her child.