The study aims to outline the history of infractions against the person, given that the offences and crimes regarding genetic manipulation bring prejudice to the life of the individual from several perspectives -physical, moral, spiritual; the study also aims to bring arguments for the necessity to incriminate them. It is not easy for a democratic State, with the rule of law, to maintain a perfect balance between sanctioning all the deeds that prejudice the right to life and respecting the rights of those who violate it. Criminal law has the hardest job regarding the right to life: the criminal law has to incriminate as infractions all the deeds that prejudice directly or indirectly this social value. However, these deeds represent only a limited part of the potentially dangerous deeds, with possible consequences on the genetic identity of the individual or involving a certain degree of genetic engineering use. From this viewpoint, the approach of the Legal commission, which created the Project of the New Criminal Code, was an efficient one, but it failed to enter into force. Currently, in order to deal with new situations, I believe it is necessary for the Romanian legislator to get inspiration from the laws adopted by other States of the world (especially the European ones), which have taken significantly more measures in this field. The best example is represented by the French bioethics law of 19941, modified and completed in 2004, when it also entered to be effective. This law is dedicated exclusively to the regulation of genetic engineering, regardless of its form.
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