bioethics

The Philippines’ ethical time bomb

Dean Menchavez | 09 May 2008 | comment 8

Filipinos have narrowly escaped the establishment of a legal market for organs. But will the new system work?

Girls, unprotected

Melinda Tankard Reist | 08 May 2008 | comment 6

The insertion of long-acting contraceptives into the bodies of young girls does not protect them from sexual abuse. It sets them up for greater exploitation.

Treat your goldfish well – or else!

Michael Cook | 02 May 2008 | comment 25

Depriving a goldfish of fishy companions has become a crime in Switzerland.

The ethics of defying nature’s plan for parenting

Tom Frame | 16 April 2008 | comment 4

Childlessness is not a tragedy, says an Anglican bishop.

Canada debates foetal homicide

Margaret Somerville | 08 April 2008 | comment 10

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

Consternation in Barad-dûr

Michael Cook | 04 April 2008 | comment 2

An ethical development could make embryonic stem cell research obsolete and derail plans for California's $3 billion institute.

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.

Who dare call it futile?

Margaret Somerville | 13 March 2008 | comment 4

A Canadian man’s life depends on a ventilator. His relatives want to keep it on; his doctors want to turn it off.

Moral sense and non-sense

Marie I. George | 13 February 2008 | comment 3

The new science of morality might sound impressive to those mesmerised by science but is it really new?

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 22

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

The myth of the ‘teenage brain’

Thomas Lickona | 17 December 2007 | comment 12

Is it true that your offspring will not be capable of a mature decision until he or she is 25?

The Ethical Imagination

Michael Cook | 06 December 2007 | comment 21

A Canadian ethicist offers a fresh approach to defending human dignity.

Stem cell breakthrough: ethical science is good science

Michael Cook | 23 November 2007 | comment 3

As forecast, therapeutic cloning is well and truly on the skids. But how did it happen so quickly?

Recognising the youngest victims of crime

Margaret Somerville | 23 November 2007 | comment 4

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

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