NEW DIMENSIONS OF THE BIOETHICS EMERGING FROM THE ANALYSIS OF THE ABORTION PHENOMENON. CONSEQUENCES ON CRIMINAL LAW PROVISIONS IN REFERENCE TO ABORTION
NEW DIMENSIONS OF THE BIOETHICS EMERGING FROM THE ANALYSIS OF THE ABORTION PHENOMENON. CONSEQUENCES ON CRIMINAL LAW PROVISIONS IN REFERENCE TO ABORTION

Summary/Abstract: Over the centuries, abortion was the source of intense debates. Since, in present-day, bioethics tends to manifest intense influence over the areas that challenge the essential rights of individuals, including the right to life, we believe it is very important to analyse abortion from bioethical perspective. The approach that we make illustrates the difficulty of using traditional methods in the analysis of abortion from a bioethical view. The abortion issue is unique because it is based on a unique type of relationship, namely the relationship between a pregnant woman and the foetus. In these circumstances, we must accept that all the conclusions that can be drawn with regard to abortion on bioethical field can only be unique. Thus, bioethics can accept abortion if conditions are created to prove that, as a rule, states value each individual and encourage people to have children. When applying this idea in criminal law it results in justifying the decriminalization of abortion in small stages of pregnancy.

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