San Antonio Catholic University (UCAM) has closed this morning the Second Conference Contemporary Bioethics, organized by the Department of Human and Religious Sciences.
In the closing ceremony has involved the Vice Chancellor for Religious Affairs, José Alberto Cánovas, and conference coordinator, Gloria Maria Thomas, who has read the conclusions.
Among the speakers at this final day of the intervention should be noted professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, César Nombela has lectured on "Human life, the key reference for Bioethics."
The ceremony was attended by the president of the University, José Luis Mendoza, and the director of Human and Religious Sciences, among other representatives of the institution.
The professor of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, César Nombela, gave a lecture entitled "Human life, the key reference for Bioethics."
According Nombela, "human life than the purely biological," and explained that "currently, and especially in the last 60 years, there has been a boom in life sciences, but in the knowledge of life is not only necessary to know the science, but also the meaning of life, bioethics, because without it you can not understand the dignity of human life. "
The symposium coordinator and professor at the UCAM, Gloria Mary Thomas, in his speech on 'human corporeality', explained that 'the human body is an integral and, simultaneously, expression of the person created in the image and likeness of invisible God.
The human body, to be given meaning is certainly the anthropological node where it is resolved or deformed the mystery of man. "
The vice president of the Murcia of Bioethics, and Professor of Bioethics at the UCAM, Modesto Ferrer, in his paper on 'Bioethics in the teaching of Benedict XVI', said that "there is a relationship between the ethics of life and social ethics .
No solid foundations a society that, while affirming the values of dignity, justice and peace, accepting and tolerating refutes the most varied forms of contempt and violation of human life, especially if it is weak and marginalized. "
On the other hand, Professor of Bioethics at the UCAM, Juan Antonio Marin, in his paper entitled "Animals" rights?, Said that "animals have no rights, but neither man has all rights to animals."
Among the final conclusions of the conference, delivered by Dr. Gloria Mary Thomas, include "the inalienable value of the person, public order substrate, and therefore the source of all human rights."
Regarding conscientious objection, it was concluded that "the true relationship between personal conscience and the law, it must be legal recognition of conscientious objection as a manifestation of respect for human dignity."
Source: UCAM