For the first time in the history of human kind, we can produce human life. We have the possibility of creating embryos and even of creating clones. The right to physical and mental integrity means that the individual has the right to know what is done to his or her own body, for instance during treatment. The Charter asserts the freedom to do what you want with your own body. The second aspect is respect for the informed consent of the patient.
Informed consent is the basis of bio-ethics.
Civil rights and human rights have a new dimension because of the potential power of medicine to intervene in the human body. This is not entirely new, but it is very important. The third point concerns eugenics and the making of life. It prohibits eugenic practices. Eugenics can now take the form of selecting the people who are born.