Quebec euthanasia deaths the highest in the world
Quebec has become the jurisdiction with the highest proportion of deaths by euthanasia and assisted suicide in the world, according to Michel Bureau, president of...
Canada’s euthanasia program described as ‘dystopian’
Internationally, there is growing consternation at the rapid take-up of euthanasia in Canada. In Jacobin magazine, “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist...
US FDA makes abortion pill easier to access
The latest battle in America’s abortion war is a policy shift by the Food and Drug Administration which will allow retail pharmacies to sell mifepristone,...
The gift that doesn’t keep on giving: non-existence.
The philosophy of anti-natalism refuses to die. In the latest issue of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Finnish bioethicist Matti Häyry renews the argument for...
Colombian surrogacy: unregulated and cheap
Commercial surrogacy in Colombia is unregulated and common. A feature in the Spanish newspaper El Pais begins: “Finding a surrogate in Colombia is as easy...
Did He Jiankui ‘Make People Better’? Documentary spurs a new look at the case of the first gene-edited babies
In the four years since an experiment by disgraced scientist He Jiankui resulted in the birth of the first babies with edited genes, numerous articles,...