Bioconservatism

Bioconservatism (a portmanteau of "biology" and "conservatism") is a stance of hesitancy and skepticism regarding radical technological advances, especially those that seek to modify or enhance the human condition.
Left-wing bioconservatives
Left-wing bioconservatives believe that technologies are developed by patriarchal, capitalist systems and therefore those technologies need to be banned or those systems changed. They believe that “humanness” determines personhood, but with the exception of embryos. Furthermore, they believe that the Yuck factor trumps individual liberty for germinal choice and biotechnology, but not in matters of sexuality or abortion. Left-wing bioconservatives believe democracies should work toward social equality and ban enhancement technologies, and that existing jobs should be preserved and new ones created. [ieet.org 19]
Although Technoprogressivism is the stance which contrasts with bioconservatism in the Biopolitical spectrum, both technoprogressivisms and bioconservatisms, in their more moderate expressions, share an opposition to unsafe, unfair, undemocratic forms of technological development, and both recognize that such developmental modes can facilitate unacceptable recklessness and exploitation, exacerbate injustice and incubate dangerous social discontent. [ieet.org 19]
== Men ==
Prominent bioconservatives include Francis Fukuyama, author of Our Posthuman Future, and Leon Kass. Under George W. Bush they served on his President’s Council for Bioethics (PCB), which published the bioconservative book Beyond Therapy. Another prominent bioconservative is Michael Sandel with his book The Case Against Perfection. [ieet.org 19]
== Rhizomata ==
Conservatism; Bioprogressivism; Technoprogressivism
Category:Politics