 Coming on the heels of Joseph Fletcher and Paul Ramsey’s early work in what we now call bioethics—both Fletcher and Ramsey were moral theologians, whose work, while very different from one another’s, was based on Christian moral theology—Beauchamp and Childress offered the promise of a moral framework that could appeal to a pluralist and secular  society.[7]  Beauchamp and Childress have different theoretical starting points, with Beauchamp describing himself as a rule-utilitarian, and Childress a Christian deontologist (Arras 2017: 3; Beauchamp &amp; Childress 1979: 40: 2019b: 9). This underlines the approach as one that refrains from promoting a single theory over all others, and as one that requires no underlying theoretical or metaphysical commitments for its uptake.