The travails of the rich
The Marquess and Marchioness of Bath are not short of a quid. Their Longleat estate in Wiltshire in the UK is 9,000 acres and includes...
Forcibly sterilized during Fujimori dictatorship, thousands of Peruvian women demand justice
The regime of Alberto Fujimori sterilized 272,028 people between 1996 and 2001, the majority of them Indigenous women The regime of Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori...
Poor things! Britain’s aristocrats left behind by assisted reproduction reforms
Succession is through bloodlines The Marchioness of Bath and her sons John and Henry The Tatler, Britain’s lifestyle and gossip magazine for the upper crust,...
Euthanasia moves ahead in Australia
The Tasmanian legislature has nearly reached closure Legalised euthanasia is only a few weeks away in the Australian state of Tasmania. The End-of-Life Choices bill...
Shuffling off this mortal coil is not always pleasant
The dying process is an under-examined aspect of euthanasia and assisted suicide. Most people assume that it is swift and painless, but this is not...
Is ‘transphobia’ a kind of eugenics?
Not precisely, but it rhymes, says a journalist These things come and go, but the current benchmark for evil in public bioethics is eugenics. Even...
Confronting the frozen embryo dilemma
After 25 years, it’s still hard to let go Sometimes one gets more insight into the ethical stakes of assisted reproduction through stories rather than...