Gaza’s IVF embryos have been destroyed by Israeli bombs
One of the many casualties of the war in Gaza has been the embryos and gametes stored at the Al-Basma IVF Centre.An Israeli shell hit the...
UK doctors fear toxic abuse over their research on trans issues
Fallout from the Cass review of transgender medical treatment in the UK continues. The Guardian interviewed doctors and researchers who complained that mere discussion of...
Belgian health care boss says euthanasia is the solution to an ageing population
The president of Belgium's biggest health care fund, Christian Mutualities (CM), has called for a radical solution to the problem of an ageing population. Luc...
Guidelines on gender related treatment let children down, says major UK report
A long-anticipated review has delivered a savage blow to guidelines for transgender medicine in the United Kingdom. The final report of the Independent Review of gender...
Trump plays it safe on abortion
Former president Donald Trump has finally unveiled his policy on abortion, which promises to be an incendiary issue in the 2024 election campaign. In a...
Vatican reaffirms critique of surrogacy and transgenderism in new document
Earlier this week the Vatican published a 16,000-word document reaffirming Catholic condemnations of a wide range of moral issues, from war to surrogacy and human...
What’s all the fuss about genetic parenthood?
Some bioethicists question the importance of a genetic relationship between parents and children. What matters, they argue is a supportive family environment, not genes. In...
UK lesbian couple swap embryos and carry each other’s child
Another dispatch from the Reproductive Revolution. A lesbian couple in the United Kingdom have successfully given birth to two boys through simultaneous reciprocal IVF. Both of...
Quebec man has two healthy fingers amputated to relieve ‘body integrity dysphoria’
Doctors amputated the healthy fourth and fifth fingers of the left hand of a 20-year-old Quebec man because he believed that they were not part...
Tickle v Giggle: Australian court to decide who are women and who are not
Should women be forced to open female-only spaces to biological men? This is the question which the Federal Court of Australia is pondering this week...
Scotland to vote on legalising assisted dying for the third time
Scotland could become the first jurisdiction in the United Kingdom to legalise assisted dying. Scottish Liberal Democrat Liam McArthur tabled an assisted dying for terminally ill...
RFK Jr’s vice-presidential pick is a vehement critic of IVF
IVF could be a major issue in the 2024 US Presidential campaign. So it’s interesting that the main independent candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has...