A world without Down’s?
British actress Sally Phillips has made a magnificent documentary about Down Syndrome for the BBC. (You can watch it here on a legally dodgy YouTube...
Controversy swirls around AIDS drug in UK
Should governments subsidize a drug for healthy people? When a conservative Christian journalist writes a story about a highly-praised AIDS drug headlined “Killing Grandma for...
Swedish woman ‘recycles’ her mother’s womb
Grandson born from same womb as his motherEmilie, Albin and Marie A Swedish woman has given birth to a son using the womb...
A speed hump on the road to evidence-based bioethics
An evolutionary argument for bad science There have been calls to base bioethics more firmly on empirical analysis “to promote more balanced, and evidence-based, bioethics”....
Is immortality just a pipe dream?
An article in Nature suggests that humans are unlikely to live longer than 125Jeanne Calment, our oldest An article in Nature has cast a wet...
Cotard’s Syndrome and bioethics
What if a patient thinks they are already dead? Bioethicists spend a lot of time writing about patients who want to die. But what about...
The Netherlands, compulsory contraception, and reverse democracy
Rotterdam City Council wants to administer compulsory contraception for “vulnerable women”, saying that birth control is a form of “child protection”. Rotterdam City Council wants...
DC debates euthanasia
The Council of the District of Columbia is set to debate euthanasia legislation later this month. The Council of the District of Columbia is set...
Oderberg on contraceptives, abortion and cooperation in wrongdoing
A well-known moral philosopher says issues of cooperation in wrongdoing are essential to understanding conscientious objection. Conscientious objection has long been a cause of controversy...
Argentina a new destination for fertility tourists
Liberal legislation has opened the door for a global market. Argentina, the home of Pope Francis, has become a surprising destination for fertility tourism. Since...