Automating reproduction is just over the horizon
IVF is expensive and few can afford it. So scientists and investors are working hard on new technologies which will automate the process. According to...
China could permit IVF for single women
The Chinese government is pondering whether to permit single women to access egg freezing and IVF in an effort to put a brake on the...
Disability rights groups launch lawsuit to quash California’s assisted suicide law
Several groups representing people living with disability are suing in the US District Court for the Central District of California to have the state’s End...
Have ‘male’ and ‘female’ become cusswords in contemporary bioethics?
The Journal of Controversial Ideas is an unusual academic publication. Its articles are peer-reviewed and rigorously edited. Its editors are leading philosophers and bioethicists -–...
Pronatalism continues to intrigue the media
The notion of pronatalism – encouraging, not discouraging, population growth– hasn’t had a good press in recent decades, especially with fears of over-population and global...
Dutch sperm donor who fathered hundreds of children ordered to stop
A 41-year-old Dutch man who has fathered more than 550 children has been ordered by a court to stop donating sperm. Jonathan Meijer will be...
Are medication abortion drugs polluting waterways?
The abortion industry is polluting America’s water and the government is ignoring it, according to a citizens’ petition lodged with the US Food and Drug...
Elon Musk: the world will end with ‘a whimper in adult diapers”
Tucker Carlson, the most popular host on US cable TV, has been sacked by Fox News. In one of his final interviews he spoke with...
Victoria: should we do away with the dead donor rule?
Lobbying to do away with the dead donor rule and even to make possible organ donor euthanasia has begun in the state of Victoria, in...
Will AI be useful for bioethics?
Will ChatGPT become a bioethical tool? Possibly, but not at the moment. A forum in The Hastings Center focused on this issue. Jon F. Merz,...
Miklos Lukacs: a perceptive observer of the rise of transhumanism
Surely there must be a thread linking the great bioethical and cultural challenges of our time: transgenderism, transhumanism, artificial reproduction, population decline, wokeism (or post-modernism,...
Netherlands to broaden euthanasia rules to cover children of all ages
Following Belgium, the Netherlands is set to legalise euthanasia for children. Until now, euthanasia was only available for people over 16, children between 12 and...