bioethical topics


A good solution or a quick fix?

Anne Morse | 22 February 2012 |
tags: contraception, sexual behaviour
Should women suffering from anorexia take pills to suppress hunger? Should women suffering from fertility take pills to suppress babies?


A private matter between a woman and her vending machine?

Mary Rice Hasson | 15 February 2012 |
tags: morning after pill, universities
Developments on a university campus suggest it is time for the Supreme Court to update its famous definition of abortion.


Fudging the figures on contraception

Michael Cook | 14 February 2012 |
tags: contraception, Obama, statistics
The White House says 98% of Catholic women have used contraceptives. Its own statistics do not support this.


Unnatural Selection

Jennifer Roback Morse | 06 February 2012 |
tags: books, sex selective abortion
A book by a pro-choice feminist faces up to an unintended consequence of the West's fertility war.


Lost in Transition II: An accurate picture of youth?

Thomas Lickona | 02 February 2012 |
tags: books, emerging adults, moral relativism
We cannot stake too much on one study of young adult moral attitudes.


Gendercide: when choice becomes an issue

Margaret Somerville | 30 January 2012 |
tags: abortions, gendercide
Indignation over sex-selection shows that abortion is not just a private matter.


Let’s make the UN Secretary-General keep his word

Vincenzina Santoro | 27 January 2012 |
tags: abortions, United Nations
The United Nations must be the "defender of the defenceless", says Ban Ki-moon. Why not begin with the unborn?


Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion

Angela Franks | 17 January 2012 |
tags: books, eugenics, population control, Public Discourse
A new biography of Margaret Sanger fails to confront the Planned Parenthood founder’s ideological commitment to eugenics and population control.


The New Year should begin with ideas for saving lives, not for killing them

David Alton | 05 January 2012 |
tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, UK
A media frenzy has erupted in the UK over a hopelessly biased report on assisted suicide.


Just don’t smash it, Dave

Joanna Bogle | 20 December 2011 |
tags: Christmas, David Cameron, UK
The British PM defends Christianity but it's deeds that matter in the end, not words.


An elephant in the press room

Tracey S. O'Donnell | 16 December 2011 |
tags: abortion-mental health link, media neglect
Why did leading media fail to point out the real news in a report on abortion and mental health?


Tipping the scales towards euthanasia

Margaret Somerville | 14 December 2011 |
tags: assisted suicide, Canada, euthanasia
A widely publicized report published by the Royal Society of Canada presents a thoroughly one-sided view.


Will pigs usher in the next medical revolution?

Peter Cowan | 14 December 2011 |
tags: organ donation, stem cells, xenotransplantation
Transplanting organs from pigs could be the answer to the shortage of organs for desperately ill patients.


Nunsense about the pill

Alex Perrottet | 09 December 2011 |
tags: breast cancer, Catholic Church, contraception
Why the hazards of nulliparity in the cloister have nothing to do with the Vatican.


Death on wheels

Paul Russell | 09 December 2011 |
tags: euthanasia, Netherlands
A Dutch MP thinks mobile euthanasia units are worth considering.


A hospice in the womb

Carolyn Moynihan | 09 December 2011 |
tags: abortion, perinatal hospice, prenatal testing
When prenatal diagnosis brings bad news about their child, parents deserve a real choice of paths. Happily, there is a beautiful option available.


Heads in the sand over AIDS

Carolyn Moynihan | 02 December 2011 |
tags: Africa, birth control, HIVAIDS
How many more lives, how many billions of dollars, will be sacrificed to western sexual ideology?


Are we sleepwalking through the great infanticide?

Lea Singh | 29 November 2011 |
tags: abortion, infanticide
Staff from a horrific abortion clinic have pleaded guilty to murder. What about the rest of the industry?


Non, je ne regrette rien

Michael Cook | 24 November 2011 |
tags: stem cells
It is now all but certain that human embryonic stem cells will not deliver cures to dread diseases. Apologies, anyone?


Abortion and mental health: science vs politics

Priscilla K. Coleman | 23 November 2011 |
tags: abortion-mental health link, scientific research
Publication in a leading psychiatry journal did not prevent a barrage of criticism for the author of a study showing the mental health risks of abortion.


At long last, Dutch doctors draw a line in the sand

Michael Cook | 17 November 2011 |
tags: euthanasia, Netherlands
Euthanasia is OK, but circumcising male babies is a bridge too far.


Blithely down the slippery slope

Barbara Kay | 17 November 2011 |
tags: Canada, euthanasia
The Royal Society of Canada recommends legalising euthanasia.


Page 1 of 1 :