Bioethics

Bioethics is a part of the ethical question is responsible for human actions that relate to life in general, from medical facts to mistreatment of animals and the environment, and determine if they are within the rules of society's moral or not. This term was first used by Van Renselaas Potter, Oncologist and American biochemist, which sought to integrate medicine, ethics and ecology in a single discipline to survive the technological advances that are occurring in our era and beyond the threats they represent. Today there are many bioethical dilemmas that arise every day such as abortion and euthanasia, where human beings feel the need to make an important moral decision that perhaps goes against the moral laws of society, but everyone makes a different decision depending on the situation, as suggested by Joseph Fletcher with situational ethics. However, I believe there is an issue that is equally important but many people have not been given much to know and genetic manipulation. How far is it ethical to get to the manipulation of the human genome provided that evolve so as to avoid certain diseases or emphasizes qualities that are important for the role that each one is intended to be in life?

Man by nature has a need to investigate and find any way possible answers to the questions from all of your questions and solutions to their problems. He has managed, over time, through science and technology development that is evolving rapidly with the human race. This technology helps us every day, to improve our quality of life. Our daily activities are becoming easier to perform and live more comfortably than our ancestors. And thanks to technology, have found cures for various diseases which formerly were fatal. To achieve all these findings is that researchers need to do studies and tests to be absolutely certain that what they have discovered is completely safe for use in humans. In some cases it may be necessary human experimentation, which can be questioned by ethics. I think it's necessary to create awareness in the sense that to achieve such advances should be taking actions that may at first glance seem to be against our ethics, but studies are only to advance science and save lives until .

Such is the case of genetic manipulation, which, thanks to the discovery of the human genome, is responsible for modifying the genetic information or hereditary composition of a species, aiming at finding cures for various diseases, improve livestock, among other things . You can create new human beings endowed with stronger or in some characteristic, preventing incurable diseases, or with the cure of deadly diseases to others and save lives. A very recent case is that of Javier, a baby born this week in Spain and engineered to be perfectly compatible donor for his brother Andrew, a 6-year-old who is seriously ill with severe congenital anemia and needs a bone marrow transplant order to save his life. The parents of two children, seen in the desperate situation of wanting to save life of his eldest son and at the same time, plan to have another child decide to genetically manipulate the second in order to save his brother, to ensure a fully compatible donor . I think this case is a breakthrough science that allows us to achieve two goals at once, having a new child-free plan and a congenital disease and save lives.

It should always see that, although genetically manipulated by artificial means, the new baby is a human being like everyone, with feelings, reasoning, etc., that when he grows up will know that he saved his brother and goes to feel proud of it, provided throughout his life has been treated equally. In contrast, if the baby is conceived only to heal another human being without being wanted is going to feel rejected and will believe that only born with the purpose to be the perfect donor for someone else. I believe the man, most of the time, all you are looking for the betterment of society and such technological advances are very noble and necessary for the survival of the human race, as long as it respects the dignity and integrity physical and psychological human beings if any distinction. Carmen Ruiz-Velasco