title: [In the absence of a bioethics debate. Comments on the Decision of the Constitutional Division of the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica on the prohibition against in vitro fertilization].
abstract: The ruling by Costa Rica's Constitutional Court on the prohibition of in vitro fertilisation is a consequence of the negligible development of Bioethics, the lack of public debate on the issue and the absence of adequate regulation. Prohibition of such a vital medical technique represents an abuse of power by the courts, and thus curtails other fundamental rights, research, progress and bioethics' debate.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Valerio
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D003364:Costa Rica; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans