{"title":"Against Public-Facing Religious Bio-Restrictionism.","authors":"Anantharaman Muralidharan","doi":"10.1111/bioe.70013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent calls to include religious bioethics on the table in policy and other public-facing contexts have been made on the grounds of respect. This paper argues that these same considerations of respect point to an obligation to exclude religious bioethics from public-facing contexts. This is because public-facing religious bioethics is typically bio-restrictionist in orientation and thus involves making demands on others that people could reasonably disagree with. At the same time, respect for persons grounds a public justification requirement according to which it is wrong to make moral demands on others that are subject to reasonable disagreement. Proponents of inclusion of these views are thereby committed to excluding such religious bio-restrictionist views from public-facing contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":55379,"journal":{"name":"Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bioethics","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.70013","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ETHICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Recent calls to include religious bioethics on the table in policy and other public-facing contexts have been made on the grounds of respect. This paper argues that these same considerations of respect point to an obligation to exclude religious bioethics from public-facing contexts. This is because public-facing religious bioethics is typically bio-restrictionist in orientation and thus involves making demands on others that people could reasonably disagree with. At the same time, respect for persons grounds a public justification requirement according to which it is wrong to make moral demands on others that are subject to reasonable disagreement. Proponents of inclusion of these views are thereby committed to excluding such religious bio-restrictionist views from public-facing contexts.
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As medical technology continues to develop, the subject of bioethics has an ever increasing practical relevance for all those working in philosophy, medicine, law, sociology, public policy, education and related fields.
Bioethics provides a forum for well-argued articles on the ethical questions raised by current issues such as: international collaborative clinical research in developing countries; public health; infectious disease; AIDS; managed care; genomics and stem cell research. These questions are considered in relation to concrete ethical, legal and policy problems, or in terms of the fundamental concepts, principles and theories used in discussions of such problems.
Bioethics also features regular Background Briefings on important current debates in the field. These feature articles provide excellent material for bioethics scholars, teachers and students alike.
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