Pope Francis insists on right to conscientious objection for abortion refuseniks
Pope Francis Health workers have a non-negotiable right to conscientious objection if they are asked to participate in an abortion, Pope Francis told a conference of...
Sexual abuse by WHO staff in DRC Ebola epidemic shattered community trust
Fighting Ebola in the DRC / Médecins Sans Frontières Trust is emerging as an ethical pillar for medicine. Not that it was overlooked in the past,...
Bioethicist group supports vaccine mandates
A leading association of bioethicists has come squarely behind the idea of mandated vaccination. A statement issued by the Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD) declared that...
Bioethicist refuses to comply with vaccine mandate
Aaron Kheriaty Not all doctors – or bioethicists -- support vaccine mandates. Internationally, prevalence of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in healthcare workers ranges from 4.3 to 72%. The average...
Need a kidney? No deal, unless you’re vaccinated
A Colorado hospital has refused transplant surgery to a woman who is unwilling to have the Covid-19 vaccine. Leilani Lutali, 56, is a born-again Christian of...
Antiquated Belmont principles must be scrapped, say bioethicists
Three generations of Havasupai members demonstrate against uranium mining In order to cater for the needs of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities, the...
Covid religious exemptions in the US are a tangled mess
Rev Jackson Lahmeyer at Sheridan Church Many Americans who refuse to be vaccinated request an exemption because of their religious beliefs. A blog post in The Hastings...
‘The Lancet’ enters the transgender word wars
The word “bizarre” is becoming increasingly shop-worn in articles about the transgender movement, but it’s difficult to find a more accurate and less offensive synonym....
‘Science’ apologises for complicity in spreading the philosophy of eugenics
The logo of the Second International Eugenics Congress This year marks the centenary of the Second International Eugenics Congress in 1921, an event supported by the...
UK court upholds legality of aborting Down Syndrome babies
A woman with Down syndrome lost a court challenge against the UK government last week contesting the legality of abortion up until birth of a...
An even darker side to fertility fraud in the 60s and 70s
Dispatches from the Reproductive Revolution. Fertility fraud is becoming a ho-hum story, but just for the record, a woman in Louisville, Kentucky, discovered recently that...
Mexico’s Supreme Court dismantles conscientious objection
The Supreme Court of Mexico is dismantling the right of doctors to conscientious objection, after its recent decision that the states must decriminalise abortion. In its decision...