Politicians denounce three-parent embryos as “eugenic”
Opponents of the UK’s plans to legalise “three-parent embryos” have not given up. Opponents of the UK’s plans to legalise “three-parent embryos” have not given...
Californian governor signs off on three-parent bill
Last week Californian governor Jerry Brown signed off on a law to recognize three legal parents for a child. Last week Californian governor Jerry Brown...
Melbourne GP investigated for refusing a sex-selective abortion
A general practitioner in the Australian state of Victoria is under investigation for refusing to get involved in a sex-selective abortion. A general practitioner in...
Assisted suicide could be decided in Canada’s Supreme Court
The hot-button issue of assisted suicide will probably end up in Canada’s Supreme Court. The hot-button issue of assisted suicide will probably end up in...
The eugenicist sympathies of IVF pioneer Robert Edwards
The 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine for British IVF pioneer Robert Edwards was one of the Nobel committee’s most popular decisions. Right up until he...
Savulescu warns that “love-diminishing” drugs could be used for gay “conversion therapy”
Drugs could be used to reverse homosexual inclinations. In recent years Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu has written extensively about the neuro-enhancement of human relationships. In...
Netherlands’ first assisted suicide for disability
A 70-year-old blind woman has become the first person in the Netherlands to be granted assisted suicide on the grounds of disability. A 70-year-old blind...
Gendercide in the Caucasus is worse than in India
An international team of researchers has identified massive sex-selection problems in the Caucasus. An international team of researchers has identified massive sex-selection problems in the...
Italy cancels controversial stem cell trial
Italy’s Health Minister has ruled that there will be no human clinical trial for the Stamina stem cell treatment. After consulting a panel of experts,...
Selling organ donation
Everywhere it is tough to persuade people to become organ donors, even after they have died. This is a great advertisement from Leo Burnett Zurich....
21st-century eugenics
Hi there, The Google of genetics, a California company called 23andme (after our 23 chromosomes) has denied that it is in the business of providing...
Frontiers for prison reform
Because autonomy is the central issue of contemporary bioethics, I suppose that it is only natural that euthanasia is a constant theme in BioEdge. Unfortunately...