The Importance of Bioethics in the Use of Eugenia for the Enforcement of New Fundamental Rights

Abstract

This article analyzes eugenics in Brazil, taking bioethics as a premise, recognizing that it should guide the legislator by limiting the action of science on human life, in order to promote respect and balance between science and fundamental rights, especially the principle of the dignity of the human person. It focuses on the importance of constitutionalism for the realization of fundamental rights in the face of the technological advancement of medical science and the possibility of human character changes and breeding of races. It briefly identifies the generations, or dimensions of human rights, and doctrinal divergence from the classification of bioethics within these rights. It points out the possible economic, juridical and social factors and their reflexes in the practice of eugenics that can compromise bioethics and its implementation for the full effectiveness of fundamental rights.