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bioethics

Is English law incoherent about life?

William Keenan | 12 November 2005

A series of decisions about English law in right-to-life cases over the last 15 years threatens the traditional view of the sanctity of life.

Forgetting the Holocaust

Michael Cook | 23 September 2005

The death this month of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal reminds us that we are still in danger of forgetting about the lessons of the Holocaust.

Primate inter pares?

Christopher Blunt | 03 September 2005

The London Zoo has placed a new primate on display for its summer tourists: homo sapiens. But does he belong behind bars with his monkey cousins?

Why the UN banned human cloning

Michael Cook | 26 August 2005 | 1

Earlier this year, Costa Rica was at the forefront of a campaign in the United Nations to ban both reproductive and "therapeutic" cloning. In this exclusive interview MercatorNet speaks to a diplomat who handled the negotiations.

Rapping for life

Carolyn Moynihan | 12 August 2005

A hip-hop artist with a background in action-comedy films is causing a stir with his song and video about a prenatal brush with abortion.

Cuomo cuts through ethical knot with a committee

Michael Cook | 24 June 2005

Former New York governor Mario Cuomo has proposed that an expert committee guide Congress in deciding whether human embryos are human beings. We asked former researcher and medical ethicist Dianne Irving for her comments.

Uncomfortable truths about Terri Schiavo

Harry Moody | 24 June 2005

An autopsy has confirmed that Terri Shiavo did have massive brain damage. She was probably blind and unaware and could not eat or drink. But what does this prove?

Making better people

Carolyn Moynihan | 18 June 2005

Want a smarter baby? A faster baby? A blonder baby? Prepared to pay for it? You might be able to some day if transhumanists have their way.

Truth or consequences

Michael Cook | 17 June 2005

What philosophy can justify the abuse of enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay? The same one which justifies stem cell research and euthanasia.

False dawn for stem cell cures

Michael Cook | 27 May 2005

The sick and the scientists are rejoicing over two different visions of the future after the cloning of human embryos by Korean scientists.

Stem cell research

Amin Abboud | 12 May 2005

Regenerative medicine is an exciting new field with enormous potential for repairing damaged organs and body parts with human stem cells. But if their source is human embryos, there is a serious ethical difficulty. The destruction of human beings for the sake of their stem cells is ethically unacceptable. The author of this backgrounder is Dr Amin Abboud, a medical doctor and bioethicist who teaches at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

The ultimate Christmas present

Michael Cook | 17 December 2004

Santa came early for good little girls and boys in the Netherlands, bringing the gift of involuntary euthanasia for children under 12.

Is the biotech revolution a myth?

Michael Cook | 10 December 2004

All over the world governments are staking the future of their economies on biotechnology, especially stem cell research. Have they been sold a pig in a poke?

Beyond Britain’s fox-hunting ban

Michael Cook | 26 November 2004

In an impressive display of its growing political clout, the animal rights movement helped bring about significant legal changes across the English-speaking world in the last two weeks.

Science and bioethics at a crossroads

Martin Clynes | 26 November 2004

This is a very exciting time for biotechnology, the science of using living organisms and their products to make useful products and to cure human diseases. In the past few years, all the genes that make up the human DNA have been sequenced (ie completely described chemically). There is great hope that we will, as a result, discover many new gene products that can act as targets in the body for new pharmaceuticals to help cure disease.

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