title: Bioethics in the public forum.
abstract: Public policy is, and ought to be, concerned with the welfare of human beings across a broad spectrum of circumstances and conditions. A Catholic moral theologian analyzes his involvement as a public policy consultant on in vitro fertilization. Evaluative judgements made by the Ethics Advisory Board are not edicts; they leave matters open for reconsideration and revision, while providing a basis for policy decisions for the present.
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D001675:Bioethics; D002410:Catholicism; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D026822:Ethicists; D035082:Federal Government; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D011640:Public Policy; D012067:Religion; D012935:Social Justice; D014481:United States; D026712:Value of Life