Down syndrome babies targeted
Follows results of Danish screening program Australiaurgently needs a national screening policy for Down syndrome,experts say, after international research showed it could halve thenumber of...
Dramatic rise in caesareans in Australia
Due more to older pregnancies than vanity The number ofpregnant Australian women requesting caesareans for psychological orsocial reasons has increased by 50% over the past...
Reshaping the bioethical landscape
The election of a fervently pro-choice president could bulletproof abortion rights in the United States. The electoral tidal wave which swept Democrat Barack Obama into...
Personhood amendment fails in Colorado
And in South Dakota and California, anti-abortion measures fail Colorado voters convincingly rejected a ballot initiative to give legal personhood to embryos right up to...
Assisted suicide passes in Washington
Second US state to pass controversial law The cause of assisted suicide made a significant breakthrough this week when voters in the northwest state of...
Stem cell initiative passes in Michigan
But are the days of embryonic stem cell research numbered? The red-hot political controversy which surrounded stem cell research during the Bush Administration seems to...
Women overrepresented as clients of Swiss suicide groups
Older people more often just weary of life rather than ill Two-thirds of assisted-suicide cases in Switzerland are women, according to a recent study of...
Take care of pets –or else
New animal welfare guidelines in UK The UK government has issued provisional guidelines for pet care: cats (28 pages), dogs (30 pages) and horses and...
Swiss suicide clinic attracting Britons
British woman loses bid to allow her husband to help her commit suicide A British woman dying of multiple sclerosis has lost her bid for...
Gynaecologist prescribes lethal drink for Dignitas clients
The decline of Christianity is one reason for the attraction of assisted suicide The gynaecologist who writes the lethal prescription for clients of Dignitas has...
UK stem cell brain drain — to a country friendlier to adult stem cells
The migration that dare not speak its name Politicians from Britain to Massachusetts to California to Australia have warned that failure to support human embryonic...
Time to ditch the dead donor rule, says Savulescu
As long as patients consent beforehandAs BioEdge reported last week, an Australian doctor has claimed that many organ donors are not really dead. This means...