Bioethics and Religion in Latin America

Abstract

The relationship between bioethics and religion is an intriguing subject that invites many questions. In this article, I want to discuss the intersection of religion and bioethics at this stage of its development in Latin America. As a Christian theologian, I tend to emphasize the contributions of religion to bioethics, but a critical examination reveals where they are at odds with each other. However, both are confronted with similar problems brought about by a broader cultural movement that demands the reinterpretation of the motivations of ethics and the grounds of religion. With this reinterpretation, a change simultaneously occurs in the social spaces affected by religion and ethics. Therefore, an appropriate starting place would be to discover the challenges common to both religion and bioethics and to determine how they can work together to solve these problems.