IVF kids risk early arterial hypertension
Larger studies are needed to confirm results Children conceived through assisted reproductive technologies may be at an increased risk of developing arterial hypertension early in...
Uh-oh! Infanticide is back: why not, asks Finnish bioethicist
Pro-life arguments do not succeed in eliminating it as a morally permissible option Arguments which pose infanticide as a moral option have put bioethicists in...
South Korean doctors “protest” new abortion regulations
Doctors in the country are refusing to perform abortions. Almost two thousand obstetrics and gynecology doctors in South Korea have protested tough new Ministry of...
British IVF clinics on a “gravy train”: Robert Winston
Mixing the "desperation" of couples for a child and the "avarice" of private practice is a "dangerous combination". The 40th anniversary of the birth of...
China is struggling to undo a one-child culture
Authorities are now pro-natalist -- but Chinese society is not. In January 2016, the Chinese government formally abandoned its one child policy in favour of...
Israel legalises surrogacy for single mothers, not gay couples
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been criticised for failing to support reform. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under fire for failing to support...
Spain’s new government will not legalise surrogacy
Deputy prime minister is scornful Carmen Calvo Spain’s new Socialist government has the most female cabinet members in history and a track record of backing...
What will happen with Northern Ireland’s abortion law?
A ruling by the UK Supreme Court could doom itNorthern Ireland has one of the world’s most restrictive laws on abortion. But its days could...
Will IVF turn around Japan’s declining population?
Five percent of Japanese babies are due to IVF – one of the highest rates in the world. Still, according to The Economist, “No country...
3-parent babies: Singapore and Ukraine
A clinic in Ukraine is already performing the technique and marketing it internationally Singapore could become the second country after the United Kingdom to legalize...
Alfie Evans ‘culture wars’
Bioethicists have criticised the politicisation of the case. In a new editorial in the journal Bioethics, bioethicist Udo Schuklenk criticises the politicisation of the recent...
Ireland chooses
Ireland, which was once Europe’s most socially conservative nation, has voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment to its constitution in order to permit abortion. The...