Ethics at the beginning of life

Abstract

Starting from the basis that science, to a greater or lesser extent, has now become the engine of community development, this progress should be harmonized with a dynamic of social construction deeply linked to the realization of human and social rights of all person. In this context, the legal problem consists of detecting the new values ​​introduced by biotechnological advances, in order to face and respond to the new social realities, which require a constant legal reworking, through a constant normative reworking.

Taking into account the important interrelation between bioethics, family law and the role of the family in the composition of the social fabric; the central axis of the present work consisting of bioethical considerations regarding the beginning of the existence of the human person, new techniques of assisted human reproduction and the nature assigned to cryopreserved embryos, in accordance with national legislation.