Canada’s euthanasia regime under fire
I thought that Canadians were not eligible for euthanasia unless they were suffering from a terminal illness. So did the relatives of 61-year-old Alan Nichols,...
UK High Court defines ‘motherhood’ in controversial transgender case
Guardian journalist vows to appeal A trans man in the United Kingdom has lost his bid to be deemed a father on his child’s birth...
Is it ethical for deaf parents to choose to have deaf children?
Much depends on whether you see deafness as a disability 'The Country of the Blind' H.G. Wells, with his acute sense of ethical dilemmas in...
Abortion legalised in Australia’s most populous state
Fierce debate threatened to fracture government NSW Parliament Abortion will be legal everywhere in Australia after the New South Wales Parliament passed a bill decriminalising...
Italy’s highest court rules that assisted suicide is permissible
Italy's Constitutional Court ruled this week that assisted suicide is legal if a person is experiencing “intolerable physical and psychological suffering". Anyone who "facilitates the...
Should patients with anorexia be force fed?
Yes, says a Hong Kong lawyer Anorexia nervosa is a serious and chronic mental illness – and the one with the highest mortality rate, about...
Defending conscientious objection
The latest issue of ‘The New Bioethics’ has several interesting articles Photo by JC Gellidon on Unsplash One of the hottest topics in bioethics today is conscientious objection...
Collectables
I had a friend once whose dad collected clapped-out old refrigerators. As hobbies go, it was pretty harmless, although disposing of 34 useless refrigerators was...
Some guys just like to collect foetal remains. What’s the big deal?
A horrifying discovery on the property of a deceased American abortionist Fort Wayne Police Department searches a former abortion clinic owned by Dr. Ulrich Klopfer...
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Turning human remains into compost for your tomatoes An artist's rendering of the future Recompose facility / Recompose website The first person to be legally...
Is Trump’s migration policy eugenic?
Excluding them on the basis of health is wrong, says bioethicistfrom The Greenlining Institute Critics of the Trump Administration have a long list of derogatory...
Google bans ads for ‘bad actors’ selling ‘deceptive treatments’
The tech giant declares war on 'untested, deceptive treatments'Tech giant Google will ban advertisements for experimental medical treatments on its platforms, announcing in a blog...