Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill passes Victoria’s Lower House
The Victorian Parliament is close to legalising euthanasia. Australians watched this week as Victoria’s State parliament debated the government-sponsored Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017. The...
Blazing Australia
If you are not inclined to be disputatious, don’t visit Australia at the moment. Across the country is a heated debate about same-sex marriage. According...
Does Asia have a distinctive bioethics?
Families are much more importantThe Western concept of autonomy, which dominates in the Anglo-American world at the moment, needs to be adapted in Asia to...
After 15 years, will the Dutch finally prosecute a euthanasia doctor?
An elderly woman with dementia was given a lethal injectionFor the first time since the legalisation of euthanasia in 2002, a doctor may be prosecuted...
Iran’s legal market in kidneys creates a black market, too
The desperate and indebted are ready to sell their organsads posted in Teheran offering to sell kidneys Iran is the only country in the world...
Burial rights do not extend beyond death
The wishes of England's sadistic killer Ian Brady are not being respectedflowers at Saddleworth Moor where some of the victims were buried Where and how should...
Mary Stopes staff pressured into pursuing abortions
Marie Stopes has come under scrutiny after a review of one of its clinics. As Britain marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act,...
Calls for commercial surrogacy in Australia as children get ‘stranded’
An Australian couple has discovered they will not be recognised as the parents of their children. An Australian couple living in the US has discovering...
Shrinks ganging up on Trump
And as you might expect, this has some support from Democrats in CongressA group of American psychiatrists is still trying hard to use the 25th...