Bioconservatism is a stance of hesitancy about technological development in general and strong opposition to the genetic, prosthetic or cognitive modification of human beings in particular. Whether arising from a conventionally right-leaning politics of religious/cultural conservatism or from a conventionally left-leaning politics of environmentalism, bioconservative positions oppose medical and other technological interventions into what are broadly perceived as current human and cultural limits in the name of a defense of "the natural" deployed as a moral category.

Bioluddism is a form of radical bioconversatism.

Technoprogressivism is the stance that contrasts with bioconservatism.

See also

• Bioethics
• Biopolitics
• Genetic engineering
• Human enhancement technologies
• Nanotechnology
• Reproductive technology