БОГОВИ СУ ПАЛИ НА ТЕМЕ: О УСТАВУ И БИОЕТИЦИ
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY: ON CONSTITUTION AND BIOETHICS

Summary/Abstract: At one point, Professor Michael Shapiro had used the theme from a South African’s movie, called The Gods Musty be Crazy, to explain a technological or social innovation’s apparent „lack of fit“ within standard ways of ‘thinking and feeling’ in law or elsewhere. The reactions of a considerable number of the Serbian citizens to the ban of human cloning in the new Constitution of the Republic of Serbia affirm Shapiro’s comparation. In the absence of public deliberation on a draft Constitution, constitutional ban on human cloning, for many in Serbia, appeared as if „coming from the sky“, similar to the Coke bottle in the above mentioned movie. Constitutional ban on human cloning motivated the author to analyze more thoroughly the relationship between a constitution and bioethics. She argues that the „bridge“ between the two are human rights and to illustrate the point, uses the examples of the constitutional adjudication of abortion and euthanasia and the constitutional regulation of human cloning.

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