Reviving angelology
Last week’s news about an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics endorsing the moral permissibility of infanticide created an enormous amount of controversy in...
A new industry – fertility finance
Julie Barth, was over the moon when her doctor told her she might be able to get pregnant via IVF. But the Illinois doctor didn’t...
Women’s rights violated in India’s surrogacy capital: study
A recent study published by the Centre for Social Research in India claims that women’s rights in India’s surrogacy capital, Anand in Gujarat are being...
Israeli mothers no longer have to adopt babies born via surrogate
A Tel Aviv family court set a legal precedent this week when it ruled that a woman whose eggs were used in a surrogate birth...
Moldova votes for chemical castration
Chemical castration will be mandatory in Moldova for those convicted of violently abusing children under 15. Chemical castration will be mandatory in Moldova for those...
The infanticide controversy: the authors
On February 23 the Journal of Medical Ethics published “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?”, an article by two Italian ethicists working in Australia....
The infanticide controversy: the editor
Julian Savulescu, the Australian philosopher who is now the director of Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, is ever controversial. He was a leading...