bioethics - abortion

America’s most public pregnancy

Brian Lilley | 05 September 2008 | comment 10

Some culture wars start this way: a small bombshell in an out-of-the-way place and before you know it, they're lobbing grenades.

Does making babies make sense?

Richard Stith | 02 September 2008 | comment 13

Why so many people find it difficult to see humanity in a developing foetus.

You gotta have faith

Brian Lilley | 27 August 2008 | comment 31

Joe Biden's nomination as Barack Obama's running mate casts a shadow over the Democrats' campaign. 

Affirming life

Margaret Somerville | 15 August 2008 | comment 17

“I am carrying this baby as long as he will let me, and will not be the killing hand.”

Singapore’s fertility woes call for a rethink of sexual attitudes

Nick Chui | 31 July 2008 | comment 6

Frenzied attempts to boost birth rates in the city state ignore one key statistic: abortion rates.

The shameful history of population control

Rosa Linda Valenzona | 25 June 2008 | comment 7

Countless millions of people in developing countries have been robbed of their human rights and dignity by a movement still regarded as humanitarian.

Cracks in the population consensus

Carolyn Moynihan | 21 June 2008 | comment 4

When the leading advocates of reproductive choice cannot agree, things begin to look interesting.

Canada debates foetal homicide

Margaret Somerville | 08 April 2008 | comment 11

Sound evidence and sound language are absent in pro-choice arguments.

Abortion could harm your mental health

Carolyn Moynihan | 19 March 2008 | comment 5

After 40 years and 6.6 million abortions British psychiatrists say there could be harmful psychological effects.

The unkindest cut

Carolyn Moynihan | 29 January 2008 | comment 23

Female circumcision is outrageous, but then so is much of what we do to women in the West.

Abortion: giving new life to the debate

Margaret Somerville | 26 January 2008 | comment 23

Anniversaries of court decisions in the United States and Canada highlight the need for open discussion of this moral issue in the public square.

Recognising the youngest victims of crime

Margaret Somerville | 23 November 2007 | comment 6

The complexities and controversies of using law to protect the foetus.

Making birth safe - or preventing births?

Carolyn Moynihan | 25 October 2007 | comment 8

Yet another international conference on women's reproductive health turns out to be an exercise in abortion advocacy.

Shameful anniversary, sham inquiry

Josephine Quintavalle | 24 October 2007 | comment 34

Forty years ago Britain passed a law that has facilitated 6.7 million abortions. A government inquiry has seen to it that nothing will change.

The ultimate miserabilist

Michael Cook | 02 October 2007 | comment 30

Just when you thought philosophers couldn't get any more pessimistic, one of them surprises you. 

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