Is Peter Singer the future of American bioethics?
Invited as plenary speaker at Harvard conference Want a peek into the future of American bioethics? It could be Peter Singer. The American Society of...
Poland to chemically castrate paedophiles
Prime Minister’s popularity jumps after proposal Enraged by a notorious case of incest, the Polish prime minister has called for compulsory chemical castration of sex...
Pro-choice victory on Victorian abortion bill
Problems with conscientious objection Pro-choice campaigners in the Australian state of Victoria have emerged triumphant after the upper house of the state parliament voted to...
US bioethics council grills experts on conscientious objection
Balancing autonomy against conscience With conscientious objection emerging as a surprise bioethical headline over the past month, it turns out that the President's Council on...
Warnock not loopy, says US bioethicist
Practical advice, says AJOB editor Britain's leading bioethicist, 84-year-old Baroness Mary Warnock, recently shocked the nation by declaring that the elderly ought to volunteer for...
Indigenous infanticide sparks controversy in Brazil
Cultural relativism clashes with human rights "The right to life is universal and does not depend on ethnic background." This seems hardly controversial in today's...
Why don’t we care about embryos which perish naturally every year?
Oxford academic calls pro-life position absurdA common criticism of the sanctity-of-life of human embryos is that so many of them perish spontaneously, especially before implantation,...
Conscientious objection safe in Ontario
Conscientious objection safe in Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons retreats from earlier position The regulatory body for doctors in the Canadian province of Ontario...
Conscientious objection to abortion questioned in Australia
Victorian Parliament considering decriminalisation billThe right to conscientious objection to abortion is under threat in the Australian state of Victoria. The lower house of the...
Pro-choice and pro-euthanasia groups list their enemies
Comprehensive list of "Medical Right" villains now available Nowhere is bioethics more politicised than in the United States. A pro-abortion group, the Religious Coalition for...
Mea culpas and they-a culpas
Therapeutic cloning on the skids Here’s an interesting idea about the phenomenon of apologising for the sins of past sins, from bioethicist Alice Dreger, of...
Utilitarian to head UK ethics institute
John Harris teams up with John Sulston And while we’re grumbling about UK research grants, here’s more news about research grants doled out to radical...