Some Flemish doctors support legalization of infanticide: survey
Almost 9 out of 10 who do late-term abortions Physicians and other healthcare professionals in the Dutch-speaking regions of Belgium who are willing to do...
Disability rights groups protest death of man in Texas hospital
What about the equal dignity of the disabled? Michael Hickson with his five children / photo from Melissa Hickson Late last month we reported the...
Belgium’s euthanasia law under fire in European Court of Human Rights
The case of Godelieva de Troyer shows the entrenched conflict of interest in Belgian euthanasiaGodelieva de Troyer On April 19, 2012, a 64-year-old Belgian woman...
Famous last words – Covid-19 directives
Lethal instructions given to nursing homes Joseph Henry Green, an English surgeon who was Coleridge’s literary executor was checking his own pulse as he lay...
Coronavirus futility in Texas
Who determines ‘quality of life’? A Covid-19 death in Texas offers a dramatic demonstration of the opposite poles in end-of-life care. Michael Hickson was a...
Scandal about treatment of cadavers in France’s leading medical school
A national bioethical framework is needed for body donation Since last November, Europe's largest anatomy centre at the medical school of the University of Paris-Descartes...
VSED has been normalised. But is it ethical?
Ethicists are taking an interest in Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking. Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide are now legal in dozens of jurisdictions around the...
‘We’re all vitalists now’, Oxford ethicist tells utilitarians
Utilitarians have been overlooked In a characteristically provocative article, Oxford medical ethical ethicist Charles Foster observes that, in the current emergency, policy-makers the world over...
BMA’s Covid-19 guidelines attacked
Will they withstand legal challenges? BMA House in London at twilight Godwin’s law, a well-known internet maxim, hold that "as an online discussion grows longer,...
Should faith-based Canadian nursing homes allow euthanasia in the pandemic?
Supporters are lobbying to force nursing homes to host MAiD doctors to ply their trade Social distancing regulations in Canada are leading to tensions over...
The elderly can still be heroes in the Covid-19 crisis
Two bioethicists argue that victims can offer their bodies for experimentation and organ donation Dirk Bogarde as Sydney Carton goes to the guillotine in A...
UN official criticizes ‘liberal eugenics’
Disability expert denounces ‘ableism’ Catalina Devandas Aguilar A United Nations official has slammed “liberal eugenics”. In her report to the Human Rights Council on people...