Another American state legalises assisted suicide
The right-to-die is advancing in the US. New Mexico finally legalised assisted suicide this week, making it the 11th American jurisdiction. However, in France and...
New Mexico legalises assisted suicide
Compassion & Choices is cock-a-hoop New Mexico has become the 11th American jurisdiction with assisted suicide. On Thursday, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Elizabeth...
Vaccine passports spark controversy
Scientists, doctors, politicians and business at sixes and sevens Next stop in the coronavirus pandemic: vaccine passports. Rutgers University, the largest public college in New...
UK research review is sceptical of medical treatment for gender dysphoria
The evidence for puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones is of ‘low quality’ The biggest controversy in medicine at the moment is the appropriate treatment of...
Is abortion a global public health emergency?
Has Covid-19 created a precedent for dealing these emergencies? Around the world, public health measures to cope with Covid-19 -- like social distancing and lockdowns...
‘Dignity in dying’ legislation fails in France and Latvia
Delaying tactics kill bill in French Parliament France: A bill to legalise euthanasia was smothered by delaying tactics in the French Parliament this week. The...
Brain organoids give rise to novel ethical complications
Could we create a ‘Planet of the Apes’? Uh-oh! Something went wrong.... Stem cell research has allowed medicine to go places that were once science...
Knock-on effects of same-sex marriage continue
The definitions of adultery and intercourse have to be modified The legal consequences of same-sex marriage are still working themselves out. Now that sex is...