bioethics

Quiet, please. Complacency at work!

Carolyn Moynihan | 16 April 2013 |

tags: abortion, Kermit Gosnell, New York Times

The New York Times has ignored an appalling abuse of human rights in nearby Philadelphia. What explains its indifference to the Kermit Gosnell abortion trial?

The other controversial legacy

Michael Cook | 16 April 2013 |

tags: bioethics, IVF, Nobel Prize, Robert Edwards

Robert Edwards, the inventor of IVF, died two days after Margaret Thatcher. History may show that his impact was even greater than hers.

Engineering our way to a eugenic future

Philippa Taylor | 12 April 2013 |

tags: bioethics, eugenics, UK

The UK fertility regulator has proposed a "minor" procedure with momentous consequences which is legal nowhere else in the world.

New frontiers in repressing dissent

Mishka Gora | 11 March 2013 |

tags: abortion, Tasmania

Tasmania may be small, but it will punch far above its weight on the world stage in shutting down protests against abortion if a new bill is passed.

Taking same-sex marriage step by step

Michael Cook | 05 March 2013 |

tags: polyamory, relationships, same-sex marriage

Whether you call it polygamy, or polyamory, or consensual nonmonogamy, the notion of multiple partners in a single relationship is just over the horizon.

Who am I? The building of bionic man

William E. Carroll | 05 March 2013 |

tags: bioethics, bionic man, enhancement

The invention of Rex, a bionic man with artificially created organs, helps us see why it is impossible for any machine to be a human being.

Innocents abroad

Michael Cook | 05 February 2013 |

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, Tasmania

Lightweight politicians have written a lightweight report on euthanasia for Tasmanian voters.

How my mother died

Tom Mortier | 04 February 2013 |

tags: Belgium, euthanasia

A mentally-ill Belgian woman sought euthanasia to escape her problems. The doctors told her, sure, why not?

The New Eugenics

Michael Cook | 14 December 2012 |

tags: eugenics, evolution, genetics

Some scientists are haunted by the idea of genetic degeneracy.

The third rail of feminism

Michael Cook | 11 December 2012 |

tags: Africa, female genital mutilation, feminism

Why isn't the media interested in the facts about the controversial practice of female genital mutilation?

A path to oblivion?

Jacqueline Laing | 11 December 2012 |

tags: end-of-life care, euthanasia, UK

Are English hospitals putting seriously ill patients on an assembly line to death with the Liverpool Care Pathway?

The smokescreen putting young men’s health at risk

Thomas Coy | 13 November 2012 |

tags: health policy, HIV, homosexuality

How much worse do the risks of gay sex have to be before it rates the same public health warnings as smoking?

Wisdom from Massachusetts

Michael Cook | 08 November 2012 |

tags: 2016 elections, assisted suicide, Massachusetts

The failure of a referendum on assisted suicide shows that "dying with dignity" is not a progressive cause.

Halloween bioethics

Michael Cook | 30 October 2012 |

tags: bioethics, disaster preparedness, zombies

How prepared are you for a zombie apocalypse? Is it ethical to kill zombies? Do zombies have human rights?

“Soon our happy hearts will quiver”

Michael Cook | 16 October 2012 |

tags: bioethics, secularism, transhumanism

Are bioethicists reviving mediaeval inquiries into how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

The new sexual predators

Alana S. Newman | 12 October 2012 |

tags: bioethics, egg donation, surrogacy

It used to be just men looking for one-night stands. Now it's older women and gay men seeking their eggs.

A Nobel Prize for ethics?

Michael Cook | 09 October 2012 |

tags: bioethics, stem cell ethics, stem cell research

This year's Nobel Prize for Medicine was shared by a Briton and a Japanese who respects the dignity of the human embryo.

What lies beyond conscience?

Michael Cook | 25 September 2012 |

tags: abortion, conscience, conscientious objection

Respect for conscience and conscientious objection is being eroded in the medical profession.

Catholic women and that other contraceptive mandate

Carolyn Moynihan | 14 September 2012 |

tags: Catholic Church, contraception, natural family planning

Why do so many church-going women reject Catholic teaching on family planning? At last someone has asked them.

Locked in to euthanasia

Michael Cook | 21 August 2012 |

tags: euthanasia, locked-in syndrome

Believe it or not, it is possible for people to find happiness in the strangest places -- even quadriplegia.

The link between rented wombs and gay marriage

Michael Cook | 19 July 2012 |

tags: bioethics, same-sex marriage, surrogacy

If marriage leads to children, same-sex marriage must inevitably lead to surrogacy and exploitation.

An unmet need for sound thinking

Michael Cook | 13 July 2012 |

tags: contraception, economics, family planning

Melinda Gates, one of the world's richest women, and the British government, organised a family planning summit in London this week. They should have done their homework first.

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