2022 Reports

Do Embryos Have More Rights than People?

Griffin, Fiona

Law and bioethics cooperate in a causal relationship; law imposes standards on medicine and society as it evolves, and bioethics evaluates possible ethical impacts. Yet the law does not bend to bioethical principles. Rather, the law regulates novel phenomena in medicine and science according to its own standards (Stoeklé et al., 2019). It is here that bioethics addresses unethical consequences of legal rulings that disregard the bioethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. Evidence of this is underscored in the revision of Arizona State Legislation, sectioned 25-318.03 amended after the divorce proceedings of Ruby Torres and John Terrell.