World IVF market is already US$25 billion
According to Vision Research Reports, the size of the global IVF market was estimated at US$25.3 billion in 2023. By 2023 it will be US$43.6 billion. The market...
Is there a case for ’institutional conscientious objection’ to abortion and euthanasia?
Institutional conscientious objection may sound like an arcane bioethical issue, but it will be at the centre of fierce political debates in coming years. As...
Non-binary Canadian demands that the government cover his extreme genital surgery
An Ontario man is suing the provincial government’s health insurance plan to cover niche gender-affirming surgery in the United States which will give him both...
Opt-out scheme for UK organ donation flounders
England’s opt-out scheme for organ donation does not seem to be working. Rolled out in 2020, the system was supposed to provide an 100 extra donors...
Czech doctors abort wrong baby
An expectant mother lost her baby after a horrifying mistake in a hospital in the Czech Republic. A foreign woman who was four months pregnant...
A story of secret surrogacy in China
This story comes from the intersection of China’s one-child policy, voluntary childlessness, surrogacy, and traditional norms of filial piety. As reported in the South China Morning...
Belgian softens penalties for illegal euthanasia deaths
Belgian doctors can be prosecuted if they administer euthanasia without regard to the specified conditions. But however serious the infraction may be, they can only...
What does the world’s ‘low-fertility’ future look like?
Decades of fretting about over-population and encouraging contraception and abortion have succeeded. But the dream of zero population growth has become a nightmare, a new study...
Contradictory attitudes towards people with Down syndrome
March 21st was World Down Syndrome day. The event is supposed to foster awareness of Trisomy 21, as the condition is also called. Modern societies...
The Gambia on track to reverse ban on female genital mutilation
In the United States, Australia, and Europe there can be no cause more popular, more humane, and more progressive than the abolition of female genital...
Some Americans are disposing of their costly frozen embryos
The cost of storing frozen embryos is steadily rising in the United States, prompting some people to have them destroyed. The Washington Post interviewed several people in...
In Scotland 4 out of 10 women choose abortion because they can’t afford childcare
Four in 10 women in Scotland who have terminated a pregnancy say that the cost of childcare was the primary motivation for their decision. Research...