Biopower as Creator of Ethical and Legal Problems: Case of theLegal Status of a Human Embryo
2018
The aim of this article is to address the current risk of the
increasingly progressive development of biomedicine, which, due
to the passivity of the legislator, transforms itself into the
form of biopower, which is a new form of regulation of society.
However, this type of power is represented by private clinics
or companies, which focus their attention primarily on the
rapid scientific development and economic prosperity. The
result is that, on the one hand, modern procedures in the field
of reproductive medicine and prenatal care are presented as
rescuing individuals or societies from the problem of low birth
rates, but, on the other hand, they lead to the overproduction
of human embryos, which are then frozen as biological material
that can be used, donated or even destroyed. Consequently, we
can assert that the right to life is no longer respected as a
basic or sacred value, but as an obstacle to scientific
development, whose borders are not restricted even by the
protection of life itself and the need of preserving its
naturalness.
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