Leading US psychiatrist describes transgender medicine as “folly”
'I’m absolutely convinced that this is folly and it’s going to collapse,' says Paul McHugh.One of the most prominent critics of the tenets of transgender...
‘Uterine morality’
I had never heard of the term "uterine morality" until this week. At first I thought that it must mean a more traditional approach to...
‘Uterine morality’: feminist eugenics in China
Is it a crime to have ugly children? Like the coronavirus, eugenics keeps morphing and mutating to adapt to new environments. In China, for instance,...
Planned Parenthood disavows its founder (but not abortion)
But vows to fight racism Planned Parenthood has a founder problem. Margaret Sanger was a racist and a eugenicist. Critics of Planned Parenthood have been...
Upper crust eugenics: a sordid saga from 1930s America
The involuntary sterilisation of Ann Cooper Hewitt Ann Cooper Hewitt and her mother making their final depositions / Salon Pining for the good old days,...
Amitai Etzioni wants Biden to form bioethics commission
Very concerned about genetic engineering The eminent communitarian scholar Amitai Etzioni has called upon President Biden to re-establish a bioethics commission to deal with the...
Britain’s first birth control clinic opened 100 years ago
But historians say that it is entangled with eugenics and racism Marie Stopes House in Whitfield Street near Tottenham Court Road was Britain's first family...
Is ‘transphobia’ a kind of eugenics?
Not precisely, but it rhymes, says a journalist These things come and go, but the current benchmark for evil in public bioethics is eugenics. Even...
Is abortion for Down Syndrome ‘eugenics’?
One doctor says Yes Aborting a child because tests show that he will have Down Syndrome is often described by its opponents as “eugenics”. This...
Classics scholar slams transhumanism in new book
The stakes of how we respond to transhumanism are immeasurably high, says Susan Levin Books about transhumanism seem to fall into two categories: glowing with...
Arkansas case shows path forward for banning Down Syndrome abortions
Terminating a foetus because it may have Down Syndrome is basically a kind of modern eugenics. A novel argument for chipping away at legalised abortion...
Marie Stopes’s most famous memorial scrubs her name off the brand
A woman who promoted eugenics is not a great advertisement Just as slavery is the Achilles heel of 19th century institutions, eugenics is the weak...