bioconservative

English

Etymology

bio- +‎ conservative

Adjective

bioconservative (comparative more bioconservative, superlative most bioconservative)

1. Characterized by bioconservatism.
   • 2014, M. Hauskeller, Sex and the Posthuman Condition:

     So what's all that got to do with transhumanism, and why do I think that transhumanists are actually more bioconservative than their opponents?

   • 2016, Jacob M. Held, Stephen King and Philosophy, page 48:

     I will argue that Pet Sematary and The Tommyknockers can fruitfully be read as bioconservative fables, thematic enactments of the kind of worst-case scenarios postulated by theorists such as Bill McKibben, Leon Kass, and Francis Fukuyama.

   • 2016, Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu, C. A. J. Coady, The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate:

     We can emphasize the idea that enhancement need not undermine bioconservative values by imagining a type of enhancement that promotes these values.

Noun

bioconservative (plural bioconservatives)

1. A proponent of bioconservatism.
   • 2011, Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, The Politics of Emerging Strategic Technologies, page 195:

     Among the technologies bioconservatives frequently deride are genetic modification of both plants and animals, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, all forms of cloning and radical life extension.

   • 2012, Peter Healey, Steve Rayner, Unnatural Selection, page 186:

     The best way to protect the disadvantaged from the inequalities that bioconservatives like McKibben believe will follow from enhancement is not te prevent enhancement, but to ensure that the social institutions we use to distribute enhancement technologies work to protect the least well off and to provide everyone with a fair go.

   • 2017, Phil Torres, Martin Rees, Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing:

     In contrast, a bioconservative might stipulate the definition of an existential risk as “one that either (a) threatens the extinction of Homo sapiens—that is, through total annihilation or the creation of a replacement posthuman population—or (b) causes a permanent and drastic reduction in our quality of life."