The icon of this community combines the rod of asclepius (symbol for modern healthcare¹) and the scales of justice (symbol for law). But unjust laws exist so the scales of justice aren't sufficient to describe the ethics in bioethics. However, all just laws are necessarily a subset of some ethics.

It's an open philosophical question how to relate ethics and law. There's Rawlsian, utilitarian, and retributional justice which aren't commensurable among one another. WH von Wright's normative logic includes operators of obligation and norms to try to formalize the problem.

As an informal bioethics platform I reckon one of our core values should be steelmanning one another's arguments. Since we don't know which ethics subsumes the largest set of just laws, it will always be valuable to give benefits of the doubt².

1: I consider healthcare to be appropriate enough for the bio component of bioethics since it's similarly the desirable condition of life.

2: For example did I just awkwardly modify an idiom? Much so.