US clinics obliged to offer fertility services to transgenders
ASRM issues official statement The peak body for assisted reproduction in the US has dispelled lingering doubts amongst its members and declared that providing reproductive...
The top tech ethical issues of 2016
From talking Barbie to CRISPRWhat will the top ethical dilemmas of technology be in 2016? The John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values...
Interview: David S. Oderberg
A highly critical look at contemporary bioethical discourse by a UK philosopher. David S. Oderberg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK,...
What’s life worth, anyway?
Now that Australian euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke has burned his medical registration rather than give up promoting the right to die, he is tackling his...
Should high school football be banned?
Experts say that the risk of serious disability from concussion is too great. Bioethics is closing in on American football. An expert on concussion writing...
Somerville vs Savulescu on gene editing
Two prominent bioethicists debate the leading issue of the day The debate over editing the human genome is bound to continue for a long time,...
Most research using foetal tissue focuses on infectious diseases
Figures from NIHFoetal tissue research has featured prominently in headlines this year, after an anti-abortion activist group filmed Planned Parenthood officials talking about sales of...
Call for Belgium to revise euthanasia legislation
Doctors and ethicists protest "death as therapy". Although legalised euthanasia is widely accepted amongst Belgian doctors and politicians and a pet cause of the media,...
The socialite and her dialysis machine
Is 'life's not much fun any more' good enough reason to refuse treatment? Is “life is no fun any more” sufficient and rational reason to...
Debating the word “naturalness”
I’m not surprised that a new report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, an influential independent British bioethics think tank, has received no publicity. “Ideas...
Summit fails to ban genetic engineering of human embryos
Door needs to be left open for further possibilties. Gene-editing with the four-year-old CRISPR technique is already so promising that a meeting of American, British...
Debate begins over ethics of genetic editing
The same issues as the fight over embryonic stem cells At the heart of the debate over the use of CRISPR technology for gene-editing is...