Perseitas (Jul 2017)

The configuration of the conscientious objector field towards euthanasia in Colombia

  • Edgar Alonso Vanegas Carvajal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21501/23461780.2420
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2
pp. 309 – 346

Abstract

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This paper focuses on the configuration of an interpretative analysis of the conscientious objector to euthanasia according the socio-cultural and bio-juridical contexts in Colombia. That is, there is an effort to answer the question: How can the conscientious objection to euthanasia be configured in the Colombian context? In the situations in with the subject pleads conscientious objector to euthanasia are a dilemma and a delicate issue to handle in the Colombian context, due to the fact that they come up to try to work out conjectural situations from the national constitution of 1991, and not as a felt consensus of the majority. In the ethicalpolitical and historical-cultural conditions of a fragmented country due to a series of uninterrupted wars and violence as a framework for the sentences C-239 (constitutional court of Colombia, 1997) and T-970 (constitutional court of Colombia, 2014), the decree 1216, 2015 on a dignified death and sentence C-355 (constitutional court of Colombia, 2006) that legalizes abortion in three specific circumstances. These sentences are only the tip of the iceberg in several ethicalmoral behaviors (actions and decisions) that are very difficult to solve and require both a bio-juridical analysis as well as one from a moral philosophy perspective.

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