‘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,...
New Zealand super heavyweight weightlifter could become first openly transgender Olympic athlete
Laurel Hubbard is currently ranked 16th in the world Forty-three-year-old transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will almost certainly represent New Zealand in the women’s super heavyweight...
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...
New York axes stem cell funding in this year’s budget
Scientists are disappointed In 2007, defying the “conservatism” of the Bush Administration, New York State created a fund for research on stem cells, including human...
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...
Mouse embryos grown in vitro by Israeli researchers
Another step in “an explosion of new techniques and ideas for studying early development” of human embryos comes from Israel, where researchers have successfully grown...
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...
For teenagers from hell, “compulsory moral neurorehabilitation” might be needed
The right to autonomy fades out when they become a danger to society Transgender issues for teenagers rank very high amongst the (very few) bioethical...
Beware of unscrupulous cosmetic surgery providers, says UK association
Surgeons experiencing a ‘zoom boom’ Demand for cosmetic surgery in the United Kingdom has shot up during Covid-19 lockdowns. People attending online meetings week after...
Australian parliament to vote on 3-parent babies
For the first time since the same-sex marriage debate, Australian politicians are to have a conscience vote – this time on the controversial issue of...