The dark down-side of California surrogacy
California has become a haven for commercial surrogacy. One of its attractions is that the commissioning parents, in effect, “own” the developing child. The surrogate...
AI is an existential threat – just not the way you think
The rise of ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence systems has been accompanied by a sharp increase in anxiety about AI. For the past few months,...
Quebec becomes world leader in euthanasia
Quebec has shot straight to the top of the league table for euthanasia. According to projections published in the Daily Mail, more than 7% of...
The Pill increases risk of depression amongst young women by 130%
According to a recent study in the journal Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, women using birth control pills may have as much as 130% increased risk...
Harvard Medical School crimson over body parts scandal
Harvard Medical School is renowned throughout the world as a centre of excellence in clinical medicine and medical research. Sixteen Nobel Prize laureates are associated...
Why are scientists boasting of creating ‘synthetic human embryos’?
A scientist working in Cambridge and California has just announced that she and her colleagues have made a ‘synthetic human embryo’. They took a human...
Is it true that 99% of women believe that their abortion was the right decision?
How do women see their past abortions? The received wisdom is that abortion equals unwanted pregnancy: most women want their abortion and are satisfied with...
UK to block trans puberty blockers
England’s National Health Service (NHS) has announced significant restrictions on the use of puberty-suppressing drugs for children seeking gender-related treatments. It says that there is...
Running a cost-benefit ruler over 3-parent babies
The benefits for children born after mitochondrial donation – better known as three-parent babies – are easily demonstrated: no potentially lethal mitochondrial disease. Their parents...
Hawaii relaxes controls on assisted suicide
Hawaii has relaxed its safeguards on assisted suicide, which was legalized only five years ago, in 2018. The state’s governor, Josh Green, a retired oncologist,...
Sweden’s shameful history of involuntary sterilization
Three startling facts emerge from histories of eugenics in the early 20th century throughout Western democratic countries: they were not secret; they were supported by...
Death knock in Ecuador
Mourners in a funeral home in Ecuador got the shock of their lives when knocking came from within the coffin. They opened it up and...