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Biomedicine and bioethics
Valentin Pozaić
Abstract
Starting from numerous challenging questions posed by modern medicine to bioethics, the author outlines fundamental and concrete answers contained in the new Instruction on Respect jor Human Lije in Its Origin an the Dignity oj Procreation (Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith, Vatican City, 1987). Two innovations expressed within this
document warrant particular attention.
First, the human being from the moment of conception is afforded
equal status and rights to those of a living person, although nowhere is
it expressly stated th a t the embryo is a person. Second, a clear and
express negative judgment is rendered of the long-standing FIVET procedure, concerning which there has heretofore been a void in official
church scholarship, with theological opinion being divided.
Although »Instruction« answers only a few questions and does not encompass the entire field of bioethics — as previously prom ised — and
although it provokes differ in commentaries, it does provide clearer
guidelines for further investigations and practical applications.
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Hrčak ID:
86031
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Publication date:
15.9.1987.
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