Law & bioethics: from values to violence.
The relationship of law of bioethics always complex, has shifted post 9/11. Instead of looking to law as protector of rights and liberties, the new bioethics approach, exemplified by the President's Council on Bioethics, deploys law as aggressor. Thus we see a call to get tough, to prohibit a range of biomedical practices, with the prospect of not only civil but criminal enforcement. Bioethicists face a grave choice, whether to embrace the use of state force to resolve bioethics debates.
Wolf
Susan M
SM
University of Minnesota, Center for Bioethics, USA.
D026688:Bioethical Issues / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D001675:Bioethics; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D018456:Reproductive Medicine / Q000941:ethics*; D012945:Social Values; D014481:United States; D014754:Violence