La protección de la vida del que no ha nacido
Protecting the Life of the Unborn
Palabras clave:
Aborto, Biopolítica, Contracepción, Eutanasia, Vida (es)Abortion, Bio-politics, Contraception , Euthanasia, Life (en)
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This paper analyzes the way in which the theoretical influence of biological and medical sciences with respect to the notion “life” imposes a transformation of the political, ideological and legal constructions belonging to a State, which can be described as a bio-political one. In order to do this, the paper will resort to an analysis of the transformation of the operative idea of “life” from the Agambian perspective of the politization of death and the presumption of dissolving the threshold for deciding between what is to count as life and what is to count as death. Subsequently, three examples of legal instances in which it is permissible to end a life without contradicting the bio-political of protecting it will be supplied. These three examples, that will be examined in order are: a) euthanasia, b)abortion and c) contraception. It is important to make clear that the purpose of this paper is not to defend or condemn from a moral point of view the decision of deciding on a life different from one’s own, or to give arguments for this to be done. On the contrary, what is here intended is to provide an explicative and analytic dimension from the point of view of bio-politics, following, perhaps, the Agambian suggestion about the need to adopt a perspective of this nature in order to reach an adequate understanding of certain political phenomenon.
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