What is the real story of rape pregnancies after Dobbs?
Sometimes it seems that the precision of statistics is inversely proportion to their reliability. A widely reported research letter to the journal JAMA Internal Medicine...
Pick the odd one out: measles, mumps, Covid, rubella, pregnancy, malaria
Is pregnancy a disease? With some bioethicists arguing that the continuance of the human species is not worth the candle or that the foetus is...
Canada delays euthanasia for people with mental illness
For a second year in a row, Canada’s federal government is going to delay opening euthanasia to people whose only condition is a mental illness....
British MP lashes out at surrogacy
A Conservative MP in the British Parliament has called for a ban on surrogacy. Miriam Cates, 41, told “The House”, a magazine for MPs, that...
Antisemitism hits sperm donation
Will the rise in global antisemitism affect sperm donation? An Australian man was planning to be a sperm donor for a lesbian couple. However, they...
Euthanasia activist says that today’s execution in Alabama is bad publicity for his movement
This afternoon, Alabama time, Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, will be executed in Holman Correctional Facility. This will be the second time that Smith has prepared...
Should doctors and nurses be disciplined for reporting illegal abortions?
Between 1861 and November 2022, only three British women had ever been convicted of having an illegal abortion. But, writes Zoe Williams in The Guardian,...
200 siblings and counting. And all very sick.
How would it feel to discover that your father is a sperm donor, that you have at least 200 half-siblings, and that all of them...
New York Times tackles the ethics of aborting Down syndrome kids
The New York Times is widely regarded as the most authoritative news source in the United States. How about ethical advice from its in-house ethicist,...
Redefining the family in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed that “Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion,...
In support of surrogacy: a response to the Pope’s call for a universal ban
Now for a look at the other side of the surrogacy debate. Pope Francis recently condemned it as “a grave violation of the dignity of...
China’s population continues to decline
China’s population has declined for the second year in a row, despite desperate government incentives to women to have children. In 2023, the number of...