Trump launches his campaign
Like the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, Republican President Donald Trump touched upon a number of bioethical issues when he accepted his nomination this week. I...
Forced sterilization policies in the US targeted minorities and disabled – and lasted into the 21st century
More than 60,000 people were sterilized in 32 states during the 20th century based on the bogus “science” of eugenicsAn operation in 1941 on South...
Trump promises a vaccine before the end of 2020
Takes a strong stand against abortion and lockdowns President Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention highlighted a number of health and bioethical...
Dutch euthanasia doctor agrees that there is a ‘slippery slope’
Bert Keizer says that expanding the criteria for euthanasia eligibility is the path of progress “Anti-euthanasia lobbyists want the public to believe in the inevitability...
Scotland: legal battle over trans girl’s sperm
For the latest episode in the Reproductive Revolution, BioEdge turns to Scotland. A 16-year-old transgender girl, Ellie Anderson, died last month of “unascertained” causes after...
Ethics committee clears BLM-supporting doctors of hypocrisy over protests
Anti-lockdown protests, however, are not justifiable No social distancing while protesting lockdowns: not OK Four American doctors and ethicists from the Society of General Internal...
UK bureaucrats imposed DNR orders on care homes: report
Staff claim that some hospitals had a “no admissions” policy– even for conditions such as heart attacks Nursing homes in the UK were asked by...
Why are black sperm donors so scarce?
A fascinating intersectional analysis of the UK’s shortage A recent issue of the HuffPost UK has a fascinating intersectional analysis of the market for sperm....
Medical gadfly puts NEJM under the microscope
Theodore Dalrymple wields his scalpel in a new book Sorry, we missed this one – another acerbic book by the British doctor and writer Theodore...
Joe Biden puts on boxing gloves
As I see it, there are only three topics worth talking about at the moment: Trump vs Biden, the coronavirus pandemic, and Trump vs Biden...
Coronavirus tragedy a central theme in Biden’s election bid
He laid the blame for death and disruption of the pandemic squarely at the feet of President Trump.Apart from painting the 2020 presidential election as...
Do we need to rethink nursing homes?
A revealing article in Harper's Magazine raises agonising questionsAn article in Harper’s Magazine on deaths in nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic is compulsory reading....