In Slovenia, past public discussion with a marked moral tone - from artificial insemination and righting the wrongs against "the erased", through euthanasia and cloning, to same sex marriages and the rights of same sex couple to adopt children - has usually involved two familiar protagonists, the Roman Catholic Church and the National Commission for Medical Ethics, while in the end an antipathetic moral conservatism has almost always prevailed. It is high time that Slovene society morally matured and replaced the outmoded ethics of the sanctity of life and unconditional respect for all forms of human life with a stance that takes account of modern challenges and possibilities, and an ethics of well-being and quality of life more appropriate to modern sensibilities.
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