How should we treat disabled infants?
Hi there, Euthanasia is back in the news. A new report from a British think tank is highly critical. The author, Cristina Odone, argues that...
The “chattering classes” are pushing euthanasia, says British journalist
New report from Centre for Policy Studies A strident consumerist élite is playing on fears of death and dying to call for the legalisation of...
New Scientist proposes a new paradigm: scientists should define morality
Peter Singer and Sam Harris on the new science of morality Can science determine morality? It can and should, according to a special feature in...
Too soon to discard religion, says primatologist
Frans de Waal sceptical of how good a job science will do Not all scientists who study morality are as hostile to traditional sources as...
Euthanasia billboards erected near Sydney
Philip Nitschke’s group succeeds The Yagoona billboard. Photo: Brendan Esposito / Sydney Morning Herald A six by three-metre Exit International advertisement supporting voluntary euthanasia has...
How long does it take to starve a baby?
As long as 26 days How long does it take for a disabled new-born infant to starve to death? Up to 26 days, according to...
UK drug addicts bribed to be sterilized
American woman exports her scheme A North Carolina woman is trying to export to the UK her scheme to pay drug addicts to be sterilised....
Doctors competing to develop ultra low cost IVF
Alan Trounson working on new system Although IVF is now more than 30 years old and its inventor has won a Nobel Prize. But it...
Two bizarre IVF tales
Sperm from the dead and IVF from prison A New York woman has been granted permission to harvest sperm from her husband’s body after he...
Duty of care not owed to IVF children after mix-up
Ireland’s High Court hands case on to parliament Two children born with skin darker than their parents’ after an IVF mix-up were not owed a...
OctoMom’s doctor facing deregistration
Unsafe, says expert witness Beverly Hills fertility specialist Dr Michael Kamrava. The Medical Board of California is considering whether to deregister the IVF doctor who...
Surgery blunders surprisingly common: study
Mistakes “considerably higher” than previous estimates, researchers say Major errors by doctors and surgeons – such as removing organs from the wrong patient or amputating...