HLT POL 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Bladder Cancer, Nasogastric Intubation, Bioethics

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Sometimes ethics leads the debate on problematical issues; for example, the recombinant dna. Advisory committee at the national institutes of health established regulations prior to initiating human gene therapy. At other times, law takes over; roe v. wade, for example, has polarized and closed public discussion on abortion. Most frequently, however, scientific developments initiate discussion in both fields, as when the announcement of the birth of dolly the first cloned mammal sparked president. Clinton to ask the national bioethics advisory commission for a report on cloning. Legislatures can change the course of common law development byenactingmore law, usually as amendments, but sometimes as repeals. A judge who sees the facts of a case or the law differently may also change the common law. And so the counterpoint between legislator and judge goes. A case that acquires landmark status because ofits precedential value does so for one of two reasons based on legal precedents.

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