I.   Introductory provisions

No law is valid, or has any authority or force or effect as a Bioethic Law or any other equivalent description unless it conforms to the body of Canon Law preceding this Canon, also known as Astrum Iuris Divini Canonum in accordance with the most sacred covenant Pactum De Singularis Caelum.

Bioethics Law is the body of statutes and ordinances of an ecclesiastical, sovereign or political entity issued by proper authority in accordance with these Canons for the moderation of biology, medicine, biotechnology, animals and Homo Sapien health. As valid Bioethics Law is in accordance with these Canons, the word Canon is equivalent to describing valid Bioethics Law.

Any law claiming to be Canon or Bioethically related that is presently in force which is contrary to the prescript of these Canons is therefore reprobate, suppressed and not permitted to be revived.

As Bioethics Law ultimately refers to rules created by men and women, not natural or divine, all valid Bioethics Law may be said to be Positive Law and derived from Positive Law. Therefore, a Positive Law cannot abrogate, suspend, nor change a Natural Law or Cognitive Law. Nor is it possible for a Positive Law, Cognitive Law or Natural Law to abrogate, suspend or change a Divine Law.

A Bioethics Law is established and takes force when it is promulgated in accordance with these Canons.

All Bioethics Law may be defined by five (5) Foundations including: Life, Simple and Complex Life, Self-Aware Life, Higher Order Civilized Life and Homo Sapien Life.

When anyone references, writes or speaks of Bioethics Law it shall mean these Canons and no other.