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The Contents and Appraisal of Amendment Bioethics Law

There are so many benefits following by the development of biotechnology. The content of the 'Bioethics Law' is linked to biotechnology. The purpose of this Law is to contribute to the improvement of national health and living quality by ensuring the bioethics and safety in biotechnology to prevent any infringement of human dignity and worth or risks to human health. Science and technology is advancing at a very quick rate, especially in the area of biotechnology. The amendment bioethics law consist of 9 Chapters, 70 Articles, and 7 Additional provisions. The amendment act concrete its purpose much more than the old act. It has more character as an fundamental act in terms of bioethics and safety. Also this act will function as general principles of biomedical researchers. But ethical debates are still on going and spread widely. The main debates are the allowance of human embryonal researcher and somatic cell nuclear transfer therapeutic cloning. We take a first step to regulate the bioethical and biosafety problems. More efforts will be needed to solve these problems.