How many babies of surrogate mothers are stranded overseas?
With borders still closed around the world, news is emerging of the plight of babies born to surrogate mothers who are separated from the parents...
International surrogacy goes pear-shaped
A thousand babies -- at least -- are stranded in Russia with their surrogate mothersAs the weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic march on, more evidence...
Belgium’s euthanasia law under fire in European Court of Human Rights
The case of Godelieva de Troyer shows the entrenched conflict of interest in Belgian euthanasiaGodelieva de Troyer On April 19, 2012, a 64-year-old Belgian woman...
Of bikinis and vascular surgeons
What is unprofessional conduct?At a time when “cancel culture” is a good candidate for the 2020 Oxford Word of the Year, retractions of journal articles...
North Carolina has a bit part in the dark history of genocide
Bertween 1929 and 1974, the state’s eugenics program sterilized close to 7,600 men and womanA dark chapter in North Carolina’s history is its 20th century eugenics program....
Should governments sweeten the vaccine pill with incentives?
Pay people to be vaccinated, says Julian SavulescuGovernments all over the world are desperate to distribute an effective vaccine for Covid-19. In May President Trump...
Did Nobel laureate Robert Edwards get his gong for enabling eugenics?
What are the 'cancel culture' activists?If the “cancel culture” is gunning for eugenicists, there are more than enough candidates. One of the most prominent is...
Covid-19 briefs
The euthanasia pandemic. Super-spreaders. Sperm donors in Israel. Another pandemic: commenting on a right-to-die bill before the parliament of the Australian state of Tasmania, bioethicist...
Things you should think about when you hear ‘vaccine by end of the year’
Will we have one by the US election? By Christmas? On July 27, 2020, the Washington Post reported, Two coronavirus vaccines begin the last phase...
Covid-19: should we deliberately infect volunteers?
A thorny question for researchers and ethicists In a desperate race to develop a Covid-19 vaccine, it is tempting for scientists to compromise quality control...