Issue number 2 of our magazine makes an emphasis on... articles on assisted reproduction techniques. The first one by Cabrera A. et al, points out through a very extensive study, which had been carried out in various Reproduction Biology Clinics in Mexico City, jointly with the international reports of the Latin American Network of Assisted Reproduction (RED LARA), that of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE).

The second article on this topic: «Bioethical analysis of the impact of Assisted Reproduction Techniques (ART) on the health of children and mothers», is an invitation to think about the consequences of the techniques. Those techniques which since 1993 (vol 4, Num 2, pp. 47-66 by Dr. Marcó Bach), that we had already published, but that in this article, we add more data about the impact on the mother and the child.

The third article, which without being focused on assisted reproduction, is directly linked in a philosophical reflection on the artificiality presented by Velázquez L., and which focuses on the adaptation of artificiality to the ontological nature of the person. It addresses about the tension of ethicity between what is natural and what is artificial.

Another interesting article is the analysis of the decriminalization of some drugs, such as the misrepresentation of good, for the sake of autonomy, and even the call for their use, such as the development of personality. Herrera Fragoso, considers this fact as a type of violence. This violence, is assumed to destroy Bioethics, bio jury and that «laws lose their nature of being for the benefit and human development», since they must be inspired by universal values that protect the human being.

Being the universal Good, and that does not exclude the Good of anybody else, the article presented by De los Ríos, about the Common Good, justly speaks about reductionism, and the lack of understanding, of what is Good, if society is excluded, to only include the individual Good, which I consider, a welfare.

Finally, an article on Bioethics and Religions, this time on Confucianism and women. In classical Confucianism, women had a very important social role, but always subject to men (father, husband, son, brother) and by age (mother, mother-in-law).