Key papers which opposed abortion pill retracted
Academia is not all tea and crumpets in the senior common room. Sometimes it's a blood sport, with victors and victims, winners and losers. Raising...
British sperm is being exported overseas
Some women in the UK have been shocked to learn that their favourite donor’s sperm is being exported overseas. According to an article in BioNews,...
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...
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...
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...
American couples sue over faulty embryo culture media
Two Los Angeles couples are suing a company which supplied embryo culture media, CooperSurgical Inc, for failing to recall a toxic solution before it destroyed...