Abortion in the conception of Personalist Bioethics by Elio Sgreccia
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https://doi.org/10.26512/rbb.v16.2020.32284Keywords:
Bioethics Personalist. Human Person. Embryo. Abortion. Conception.Abstract
The ethical dilemma of abortion has always challenged and polarized human societies, given the complexity of issues that orbit around them. This article aims to analyze abortion in the light of Elio Sgreccia's personalistic bioethical theory (1928-2019), explained in his classic work Bioethics Manual: Fundamentals and Biomedical Ethics. The Italian bioethicist bases his vision against abortion, through a reflection centered on the human person, that is, on an ontologically based personalism, seeking to establish connections between modern science and Christian metaphysics. The primacy of the human person takes place from conception and transcends the mind-body dualism, because the human being, ontologically, is a unitality that cannot be reduced only to the psychic or bodily reality. It is concluded that abortion is a service against the dignity of human life, given its fundamental axiological value, wounding the sacredness of existence.
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