Polish government backs down over abortion
Daily demonstrations seem to have forced their hand In the face of massive protests, the government of Poland has delayed indefinitely the implementation of a...
Election takeaways
What you may have missed in the nightly news The result of America’s 2020 presidential election is still unknown. It seems that Joe Biden has...
We need to move beyond vertebrate-centric bioethics, scholars argue
Squid and honeybees should be recognised as members of our moral community A long-standing prejudice based on feelings of disgust and speciesism has excluded non-vertebrate...
Assisted suicide is a reasonable excuse for overseas travel for locked-down Britons
Along with work and education Britain has entered a second period of hard lockdown to avert a wave of Covid-19 patients swamping hospitals. Holiday travel...
Welcome to the world of ‘platonic co-parenting’
A new phenomenon which is becoming more widespread Another chapter in the history of the reproductive revolution: platonic co-parenting. This involves two people conceiving (naturally...
Al Jonsen, bioethics pioneer, dies
Advised Ted and Bobby Kennedy about abortion A pioneer in the novel field of bioethics, Al Jonsen, died on October 21, at the age of 89....
Updating the Hippocratic Oath
An oath at the University of Pittsburgh champions diversity and being an ally with the poor and marginalisedThe Hippocratic Oath seems to be evolving faster...
Kiwis choose euthanasia
New Zealand has just chosen euthanasia, by a whopping majority of about 65%. By my count, that makes the Land of the Long White Cloud...
New Zealand will soon have legal voluntary euthanasia
65% of voters backed it in a referendum New Zealand has become the latest jurisdiction to legalise euthanasia. The issue appeared as a referendum question...
Poland still racked by protests over abortion
President backtracks and says that women should have the right to abortion in some cases The fury on the streets about Poland’s tougher restrictions on...
Ombudsman slams euthanasia in Canada’s prisons
After three cases, there should be an absolute moratorium Canada’s prison ombudsman has recommended an absolute moratorium on providing “assisted dying” inside a federal penitentiary....
High cancer risk for IVF babies
Two-fold higher for children conceived via IVF than for children conceived naturally Children conceived with IVF have a higher risk of developing cancer than those...