Making eugenics fun in Belgium
Ad advertising agency launches a bizarre campaign Waffles, beer, chocolate and euthanasia: Belgium is famous for all of them. Will do-it-yourself eugenics be added to...
Defending Catholic views on contraception
American bioethicist and theologian Janet E. Smith makes it more plausible even if you don't end up agreeing. Although, with more than a billion members,...
Monkeys are still not persons
Happy New Year! BioEdge is gearing up for a big year, with lots of news and more interviews with bioethicists from around the world. Animal...
Demented patients can be euthanized in Netherlands
... if there is an advance directive. The Netherlands health ministry has revised its guidelines to allow severely demented patients to be euthanized. However, an...
ISIS has authorised forced organ removals of ‘apostates’
Proof found in documents captured by US commandos Persistent rumours about organ trafficking by the Islamic State have some basis in fact. Amongst a trove...
Treat surrogate parents as sex offenders, says Italian minister
Denounces it as “the most vile, illegal trade that man has invented"Angelino Alfano Surrogate parents should be treated as sex-offenders and jailed, according to...
Gay Israeli couple brings home wrong baby from Nepal
A stark reminder of the hazards of IVF and surrogacy In a stark reminder of the hazards of IVF and surrogacy, a gay Israeli couple...
US should stop physician participation in detainee force-feeding, say ethicists
Article in PLoS concludes with call to respect conscientious objection The US government should rescind directives authorizing participation of health professionals in interrogation and force-feeding...
Happy Christmas!
Happy Christmas! The staff of BioEdge will be taking a break over the holiday. Our next newsletter will be on January 8. Thanks for all...
Hammering out the details in Canada’s new euthanasia regime
Canada could soon have the world's most liberal euthanasia laws Last February Canada’s Supreme Court declared that denying patients access to assisted suicide and euthanasia...
When Ebola breaks out again, whose fault will it be?
There has been a moral failure to confront serious epidemics The West African ebola outbreak has been largely contained. Now the world can sit back,...
Mexico closes door to cheap surrogate mothers
Tabasco restricts surrogacy to Mexican nationals Surrogate mothers in the surrogacy agency home last year. The agency was forced into involuntary bankruptcy and is being...