THE WHYS OF CRIMINALIZATION IN BIOETHICS

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Bioethics is a novel branch in the field of applied normative ethics that analyze challenges and problems resulted from creation and development of new biotechnology. Nowadays necessity of prohibition in some scope of bioethics is attracted by some legalists and moralists. In this direction, one of the related issue about bioethics is use of penal sanctions protecting these prohibitions. There are different criteria for justifying the criminalization that give divers response to criminal reaction in bioethical subjects. Legal moralism has a maximum capacity for criminalization in these matters and the principle of harm and legal paternalism can't cover all of bioethical issues.

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