THE LATEST RUBBERY FIGURES ON DUTCH EUTHANASIA
About every five years, statistics on Dutch euthanasia are released. Figures for 2005, four years after the practice was legalised in the Netherlands, show that...
ARTIFICIAL WOMBS TO FREE WOMEN FROM “BARBARIC PREGNANCIES”
It's not here yet, but a British bioethicist has already constructed a moral argument for ectogenesis, or bringing babies to term in artificial wombs. Writing...
“ASHLEY TREATMENT” ILLEGAL, SAYS REPORT
The Seattle hospital where a profoundly disabled girl received the controversial "Ashley Treatment" broke the law, says group which conducted an official investigation into the...
Morality is all in the brain, say researchers
Neuroscientists believe that they have discovered a biological basis for morality. If certain brain cells are knocked out with an aneurism or a tumour, the...
D-DAY FOR EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS
D-Day is approaching for embryonic stem cells, says the CEO of Geron, Tom Okarma. The world's first clinical trial will begin early next year on...
EGG MARKET GROWS IN US
The average payment in the US for egg donation was US$4,217, according to a recent article in the journal Fertility and Sterility. However, at least...