Praise for BioEdge
Hi there, This week we are highlighting a special issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics about what may be the biggest-ever controversy over an...
A blaze of controversy revisited
In late February last year, two Italian academics working at Monash University in Australia flicked a match into a highly combustible pile of old abortion...
An attack on academic freedom?
Some bioethicists who feel at home in the utilitarian common room of the Journal of Medical Ethics described the imbroglio as an attack on academic...
Is advocating infanticide “madness”?
Not everyone in the “pro-life” camp is singing from the same song sheet in the controversy over infanticide. In this month's Journal of Medical Ethics...
Singer and Tooley on the mindset of “pro-lifers”
The infanticide debate in the Journal of Medical Ethics has garnered comments from the grand old men of infanticide, the Australian Peter Singer and the...
“After-birth abortion” already exists in the Netherlands
Dr Eduard Verhagen, a paediatrician at University Medical Centre Groningen in the Netherlands, says that, in his experience, infanticide is sometimes preferable to second-trimestre abortion....
Peter Singer supports “pro-life” free speech
Peter Singer supports free speech for foes of abortion Of course, bioethicists writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics are not the only people who...