More about the coronavirus pandemic
One of the guidelines of the UK’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics about the coronavirus pandemic (see below) is that “Liberty-infringing measures to control disease, such as...
Prison advocates call for decarceration during pandemic
Prison populations are at great risk from the outbreak. Lawyers and prison advocates around the world are calling for the release of low-risk prisoners as...
New Zealand legalises abortion
Permits abortion of the disabled and abortion for sex selection On Wednesday night, while 90% percent of the world was coming to grips with the...
Silver lining theories for the crisis
It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good Photo by Ella Ivanescu on Unsplash With deaths mounting, economies tanking and unemployment growing, it’s hard to see a silver...
Is it ethical to aim at ‘herd immunity’ to the coronavirus?
More elderly might die British Prime Minister Boris Johnson garbled his government’s coronavirus strategy. The media reported that the UK (and the Netherlands) were adopting...
Nuffield Council on Bioethics publishes coronavirus ethics guide
A very useful document for policy-makers Bioethicists are battling to produce guidelines for politicians and policy-makers in a puzzling time. The UK’s Nuffield Council on...
Coronavirus forces closure of Dutch euthanasia clinic
Euthanasia care is not a top priority in health care The only specialised euthanasia clinic in the Netherlands has closed its doors during the coronavirus...
Coronavirus and the ethics of home isolation
Staying at home can be ethically complicated. Hundreds of millions of people around the globe have been forced to isolate themselves at home in the...
Argentinian doctor given jail sentence for refusing to do an abortion
“The incarnation of gender violence in its most painful form,” says a judge Dr Leandro Rodriguez Lastra An Argentine court has upheld the criminal conviction...