Reflections on California’s assisted suicide legislation
California’s assisted suicide law came into effect on June 9. Betsy Davis, an artist with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, was one of the...
Trump’s changing views on torturing terrorists
He seems to have retreated from earlier enthusiasm for waterboarding During his campaign, President-elect Trump said that he would endorse waterboarding, a form of torture,...
Tom Price: Trump’s controversial pick as Health Secretary
He will probably be in charge of dismantling Obamacare Dr Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, has received...
Pressure mounts for commercial surrogacy in Australia
Online survey purports to show that most support it As clinics offering cheap surrogacy overseas shut their doors to foreigners, pressure is mounting in Australia...
Another abortion battle in Texas, this time over how to dispose of tissue
A policy of cremation or burial has become a major political and ethical dispute Disposing of aborted embryos has become a major political and ethical...
Is there a last-minute hitch with 3-parent embryo trials?
Not as straightforward as scientists have painted it Just as scientists in the UK are about to begin clinical trials with three-parent embryos, a study...
The complications and practicalities of cryopreservation
It is not as simple as it seemsSomeday we might get the technique right The publicity surrounding the cryopreservation of the body of...
Behind US assisted suicide stats
Stretching the law is already happening in California The farewell party for Betsy Davis A debate in the American state of Iowa over...