Analyzing Social Policy Argumentation: A case study on the opinion of the German National Ethics Council on an amendment of the Stem Cell Law
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This paper analyzes and evaluates the 2007 majority opinion of the German National Ethics Council which seeks to establish new information (as to the inferior quality of legally procurable human embryonic stem cells) as a sufficient reason for a relaxation of the 2002 Stem Cell Law. A micro-level analysis of the opinion’s central section is conducted and evaluated vis à vis the strongest known opponent position in the national debate at that time. The argumentation is claimed to rely on an unsupported semantic assumption regarding the parthood relation of the 2002 compromise and to misconstrue the strongest known opponent position.
This paper analyzes and evaluates the 2007 majority opinion of the German National Ethics Council which seeks to establish new information (as to the inferior quality of legally procurable human embryonic stem cells) as a sufficient reason for a relaxation of the 2002 Stem Cell Law. A micro-level analysis of the opinion’s central section is conducted and evaluated vis à vis the strongest known opponent position in the national debate at that time. The argumentation is claimed to rely on an unsupported semantic assumption regarding the parthood relation of the 2002 compromise and to misconstrue the strongest known opponent position.
Department/s
- Theoretical Philosophy
- Lund University Information Quality Research Group (LUIQ)
Publishing year
2010
Language
English
Pages
62-91
Publication/Series
Informal Logic
Volume
30
Issue
1
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Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Informal Logic, University of Windsor, ON, Canada
Topic
- Philosophy
Status
Published
Research group
- Lund University Information Quality Research Group (LUIQ)
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0824-2577