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As 1992 drew to a close, a new liberal spirit was felt throughout the world, especially in the West where the ideal of freedom first took cultural form. Bioethical developments both contributed to this exhilarating ethos and were in turn influenced by it. This essay reviews bioethics developments over the last biennium in the Reformed tradition. I will first discuss that new cultural ethos and its peculiar relation to the Reformed tradition. I will then explore three illustrative bioethical issues: abortion, aid-in-dying, and gay and lesbian rights to ordination. Finally, I will return again to socio-cultural analysis, trying to assess the significance of these developments.
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Vaux, K. (1993). Bioethics in the Reformed Tradition. In: Lustig, B.A., Brody, B.A., Engelhardt, H.T., McCullough, L.B. (eds) Bioethics Yearbook. Bioethics Yearbook, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1886-6_13
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