Handbook of Secular Bioethics (I). Key issues

The term bioethics, although apparently consolidated, is problematic not just because of the scope conferred upon the name, but also because the problems with it are political and legal rather than ethical. The key issue focuses on whether or not it is necessary to regulate the possibilities that bio technologies offer us, and if so, in what sense. As they do not have a clear unambiguous social response, these problems result in a demand for legislation, and this becomes an issue that falls within the sphere of legal axiology: what are the values that we must protect and how should it be done? With regard to the possibility of intervening in biological processes, there is disagreement within society that generates conflict and this requires the law to play its part to establish the limits of the freedom of individual action.
[2020]

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