How to fill the bioethics void in Trump’s presidency
What we need is a populist bioethics commission, says Wesley Smith This time back in 2008, the transition team of Barack Obama was running a...
The dignity of Mr 66 Garage
When there’s talk of border crossings and illegal Mexican migrants, my thoughts used to turn to the ugliness of Donald Trump’s dream: "I will build...
Is ‘financial abortion’ an idea whose time has come?
Men should have the right to cast off all ties and obligations for their children If women have a right to get right of a...
The battle continues over the A-List embryos
Sofia Vergara and Nick Loeb continue to duke it out in the courtsIn happier times What began as soap opera is turning into a...
Nitschke ramps up campaign for unrestricted suicide
A new group, Exit Action, will take “a militant pro-euthanasia position” Philip Nitschke is one of the world’s most famous Australians, although he has recently...
Victoria to debate assisted suicide
Labor government to introduce legislation in second half of next year The Labor Government of the Australian state of Victoria will introduce legislation into the...
UK scientists to push for 28-day limit on cultivation of embryos
Fears of a slippery slope are unfounded, say researchers British scientists want to extend the amount of time that they can cultivate human embryos in...
Murky picture of IVF complications in UK
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome can be fatal, but the statistics are confusing. Five years ago, a paper published in the BMJ came to the startling conclusion...
US Senate committee wants to ban ‘concurrent surgeries’
Questions raised about safety, transparency, patient care, billing and consent Late last year, the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, which won a Pulitzer prize in 2003...
Doctor and nurse turn killers in Italian hospital
Is this nightmarish melodrama relevant to euthanasia? Doctors and nurses are the most trusted professionals, according to a UK poll earlier this year, just ahead...
Reflections on California’s assisted suicide legislation
California’s assisted suicide law came into effect on June 9. Betsy Davis, an artist with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, was one of the...
Trump’s changing views on torturing terrorists
He seems to have retreated from earlier enthusiasm for waterboarding During his campaign, President-elect Trump said that he would endorse waterboarding, a form of torture,...