Canadian prisoners are choosing euthanasia but the public is none the wiser
Canada is the only country which regards euthanasia for people incarcerated in prisons as a human right. Nine prisoners have received euthanasia in the seven...
Is Mother’s Day more fun when there are three of them?
A New Zealand court has approved an adoption of a boy named Kaspar who has three mothers. The first is a commissioning parent, a woman...
Portugal on the brink of legalizing euthanasia
For the fifth time, Portugal's parliament has approved a bill legalising euthanasia. It passed with a comfortable majority -- 129 votes to 81. The provisions...
One in four Canadians are cool with allowing euthanasia for poor people
As Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying regime expands, it is meeting more resistance. One of the most powerful criticisms, one which has surfaced often in...
US Surgeon-General says that America has a loneliness epidemic
In addition to smoking, type 2 diabetes, obesity, opioids, and alcoholism, the US Surgeon-General, Dr Vivek Murthy, has identified another epidemic of lifestyle disease which...
Ukraine could ban international surrogacy
A committee of the Ukrainian parliament has proposed a ban on surrogacy for foreigners for the duration of the war with Russia and for three...
Group formed to combat ‘woke’ discrimination in medical schools
A group of doctors called “Do No Harm” is waging a campaign against “woke medicine’ in the United States. In an article in The Free...
Will ‘height dysphoria’ become the new black for transgender people?
Is it possible for transgender medicine -- which is already being pilloried over puberty blockers and mastectomies -- to turn up the dial on controversy?...
Canadian euthanasia: Let them die; they know what they’re doing
As Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying regime expands, it is meeting more resistance. One of the most powerful criticisms, one which has surfaced often in...
Disability rights groups launch lawsuit to quash California’s assisted suicide law
Several groups representing people living with disability are suing in the US District Court for the Central District of California to have the state’s End...
Have ‘male’ and ‘female’ become cusswords in contemporary bioethics?
The Journal of Controversial Ideas is an unusual academic publication. Its articles are peer-reviewed and rigorously edited. Its editors are leading philosophers and bioethicists -–...
Pronatalism continues to intrigue the media
The notion of pronatalism – encouraging, not discouraging, population growth– hasn’t had a good press in recent decades, especially with fears of over-population and global...