Debate on the relationships between bioethics and law

Abstract

This text collects and updates the major point of my previous work ‘

La bioética como soporte al derecho para regular la biotecnología’ (Bioethics as support to Law in order to regulate biotechnology) 1 dealing with the implication between Law and Bioethics, a relationship that I consider as having a intrinsic feature since contributions from both analyses result in reciprocal use when solving problems brought in by biotechnology, in as much both subjects share the same end: respect and promotion of recognized human rights. Bioethics provide tools during decision-making that affect values and in those which are of particular importance: designing and analysis of agendas that should govern action concerning technical intervention of man on his own life, and the means in which it develops and which soon will become Legal norms.