Is IVF changing the course of human evolution?
To some extent, IVF is selecting for infertility. Evolution is caused by the differential reproduction of individuals with certain features. So surely IVF, which enables...
What’s in the IVF Petri dish?
Nobody knows -- and that's cause for serious concern for health in middle age We know more about the ingredients of peanut butter than of...
How carefully do we give consent?
No one ever reads terms of service contracts When we give informed consent, how informed is it? Naturally, people would take greater care if the...
Genetically-engineered teenage angst
This is what happens if you think it takes a laboratory to raise a child The latest film about bioethics is basically an updated version...
Kuwait becomes first country to demand universal DNA tests
Is its goal defeating terrorism or expelling a minority group? Every country in the world examines your passport before you enter. Kuwait is about to...
The anguish of too few children
I must be getting old. For most of my life, I have been reading about the global need to curb births and the unmet demand...
The bleak story of Israel’s Yemenite children
How many hundreds of babies were stolen from their parents in the early days of Israel?Yemenite immigrants in a camp in 1950 Stealing...
India may ban all commercial surrogacy
What will happen to the UAS$1billion business Surrogacy class / BBC The Indian government plans to impose a complete ban on commercial surrogacy and to...
Kids with Trisomy 13 and 18 can have good quality of life
JAMA says that the consensus was wrongFormer Senator Rick Santorum with daughter Bella in 2012 Should babies with Trisomy 13 and Trisomy 18 be...
Marie Stopes abortion services suspended in UK
Regulators cite concerns about governance and safety Government regulators have closed some services of a leading abortion provider in the United Kingdom, citing vague concerns...
Legal heads-up on decapitation
Duke University law professor Nita Farahany says that head transplants would not pass the consent test As a Chinese doctor plans the world’s first head...
Savulescu calls for ban on doctors’ conscientious objection
Does it lead to “bigoted, discriminatory medicine”? As politicians in the Australian state of Queensland debate controversial abortion laws, Oxford’s Julian Savulescu is calling for...