“To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm.”
He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysics researcher who announced in 2018 that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies, was sentenced to three years in...
Chinese actress dumped by Prada after she dumped her two surrogate babies
Zheng Shuang reviled on social media Chinese actress Zheng Shuang in her brief time as a Prada ambassador Bioethical standards are loose and murky in...
How many embryos are frozen in China’s IVF clinics?
Another example of the insoluble dilemma Over 200,000 IVF babies are born in China every year. This means that millions of embryos may be frozen...
Why do euthanasia rates vary across the Netherlands?
Some regions have 5 times as many euthanasia deaths as the lowest regions There is a seven-fold unexplained variation in rates of euthanasia across The...
Radical right-to-die activists arrested in France
Members of the Ultime Liberté association were allegedly trafficking in the banned suicide drug pentobarbital. Ten members of the Ultime Liberté association, which campaigns in...
Family splits over fate of unresponsive man in England
Catholic Church infuriated over decision to allow patient to starve to death The Catholic Church in England has protested strongly against a decision to withdraw...
A new Swiss group caters for Dutch who are not eligible for euthanasia
You might think that the Dutch, who live in a country where euthanasia is legal, would have no need for the schemes of Dr Philip...
Australians launch class action suit against IVF clinic over faulty embryo test
They are seeking compensation for economic loss and pain and suffering More than 100 – and potentially 1,000 -- patients of Monash IVF, a major...
Classics scholar slams transhumanism in new book
The stakes of how we respond to transhumanism are immeasurably high, says Susan Levin Books about transhumanism seem to fall into two categories: glowing with...
After all, what is really wrong with apotemnophilia?
New prosthetics could even improve function Long John Silver managed pretty well Apotemnophilia is one of those words which may be useful in Scrabble© but...
Do amazement, wonder, and awe have a place in bioethics?
An Australian bioethicist says Yes If it were to be written The Varieties of Bioethical Experience would be a book as big as a telephone...
Covid could be a Waterloo for the leading bioethical theory
Has the pandemic exposed the weaknesses of principlism? Napoleon gallops towards Waterloo Covid-19 is providing a stress test for bioethical theories. And it seems that...