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The Mission and Philosophy of National Bioethics Commissions: Contributing to a Stable Societal Consensus

What do national bioethics commissions do? In a descriptive sense, this is easy to answer—they meet, deliberate, and issue reports. However, this does not answer the question of their mission. That is, what should they try to do when they deliberate and put forth reports? I wish to suggest that a federal bioethics body, whether commission or council, is at its most useful when it contributes to the development of a stable societal consensus on biomedical ethical issues. 1