A very public disagreement between two prominent American bioethicists shows that they have only themselves to blame for attacks on their profession.
If the chimpanzee genome is 98.6% human, does that mean that chimps deserve 98.6% of human rights?
It is possible to have health reform without shuttting down Catholic hospitals. Follow Canada's lead.
Could our persistent search for a hardship-free world be blinding us to the value of suffering?
If society pays the costs for creating test-tube babies, we also have to accept the ethical responsibility.
Peter Singer's latest cause is lifting billions out of poverty.
The last-ditch defence for experimenting with human embryonic stem cells is that they are a “gold standard” for stem cell research. Nonsense.
Fertility clinics are creating a new class of dispossessed human beings, says a British philosopher.
Despite its fundamentalist Islamic reputation Iran has experimented with birth control with some unexpected, and unwelcome, consequences.
Imperfections are part of what makes each of us unique and if we eliminate them, we risk losing our souls.
Abortion has not been smuggled into international law by hiding under the banner of "sexual and reproductive health".
Will the new psychiatric bible be a victory for science, or politics?
Surprisingly good messages about teenage sex and parenthood surface in an MTV series.
The legalizing of homosexual relationships by a Delhi court shows that a global, secular culture is gaining ground.
Choosing to live out one’s natural life will soon be as unpopular as refusing an abortion.
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