“At some point, I stopped looking back”
Italian who once made an appointment with Dignitas has top job in government. A man who has suffered for 14 years from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis...
Buck v Bell, one of the Supreme Court’s worst mistakes
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr may have been the most influential justice of the past 100 years to serve on the US Supreme Court. He was...
Sweden could ban surrogacy
Government report recommends a stop to both altruistic and commercial surrogacy Eva Wendel Rosberg with Justice Minister Morgan Johansson. Photo: Erik Nylander / TT ...
Fancy a black eye?
What are the bioethics of tattooing one or both of your eyeballs? Alaskan criminal Jason Barnum had his right eyeball tattooed Some bioethicists have concerns...
Canada takes another step towards its euthanasia law
Report recommends most permissive options A committee of the Canadian parliament has recommended that the federal government make doctor-assisted dying immediately available to all adults...
Harvard’s dark past as the “brain trust” of American eugenics
Even the Supreme Court justice who wrote, "three generations of imbeciles are enough" was a graduate and former law professor. Harvard University is the richest,...
Has the Zika virus changed Catholic thinking on contraception?
In a word, no. Is the Catholic Church back-pedalling on its ban on contraception? Some off-the-cuff remarks by Pope Francis have prompted much speculation in...
Oregon releases its 2015 ‘death with dignity’ stats
Since legalisation 991 people have died. Oregon is the model for assisted suicide legislation throughout the United States, so its annual “Death with Dignity” report...
China turns blind eye to surrogacy
Rising infertility is one cause of a increasing demand China’s one-child policy officially came to an end on January 1. The government is desperate to...
Should mental anguish be enough to qualify for euthanasia in Canada?
Canada’s legislators are still wrestling with how to frame a new euthanasia law. One interesting contribution to the debate comes from a senator who became...
Indian Medical Association backs pre-natal sex tests
If banning them won't work, perhaps making them compulsory will India’s gender imbalance is possibly the worst in the world because doctors routinely abort unborn...
World Medical Association to revise ‘Hippocratic Oath”
After 70 years, have a physician's obligations changed? It’s time to update the modern Hippocratic Oath, says the World Medical Association, a global organization of...