Bioethics and catholic church cathecism

Abstract

In spite of its few years of existence, bioethics has had an exceptional development and a central interest in the philosophical, scientific and juridical thought of these day. As it happens whit every new discipline, Bioethics needs to define exactly the limits of its specific study objects and its own fundamentals.

From a philosophical perspective, this work analyses the former as well as it provides the contributions of the Catholic Church Cathecism.

For such an aim, it proposes the primacy of Ethics over Science; it points out the fact that Science and Technique are at service of man who has given the origin and growth; it recognizes the personal dignity which the human body enjoys as it is a constitutive element of the person; it draws attention to the condition of the human person ant the life respect as a God´s gift. This absolute respect to human life, from is beginning to its natural end, shows the boundary that Biotechnology never can morally pass.