Polish government backs down over abortion
Daily demonstrations seem to have forced their hand In the face of massive protests, the government of Poland has delayed indefinitely the implementation of a...
Election takeaways
What you may have missed in the nightly news The result of America’s 2020 presidential election is still unknown. It seems that Joe Biden has...
We need to move beyond vertebrate-centric bioethics, scholars argue
Squid and honeybees should be recognised as members of our moral community A long-standing prejudice based on feelings of disgust and speciesism has excluded non-vertebrate...
Assisted suicide is a reasonable excuse for overseas travel for locked-down Britons
Along with work and education Britain has entered a second period of hard lockdown to avert a wave of Covid-19 patients swamping hospitals. Holiday travel...
Welcome to the world of ‘platonic co-parenting’
A new phenomenon which is becoming more widespread Another chapter in the history of the reproductive revolution: platonic co-parenting. This involves two people conceiving (naturally...
Al Jonsen, bioethics pioneer, dies
Advised Ted and Bobby Kennedy about abortion A pioneer in the novel field of bioethics, Al Jonsen, died on October 21, at the age of 89....
Updating the Hippocratic Oath
An oath at the University of Pittsburgh champions diversity and being an ally with the poor and marginalisedThe Hippocratic Oath seems to be evolving faster...