Dutch sperm donor who fathered hundreds of children ordered to stop
A 41-year-old Dutch man who has fathered more than 550 children has been ordered by a court to stop donating sperm. Jonathan Meijer will be...
Are medication abortion drugs polluting waterways?
The abortion industry is polluting America’s water and the government is ignoring it, according to a citizens’ petition lodged with the US Food and Drug...
US Supreme Court allows abortion pill to remain widely available while appeals proceed
Last week the Supreme Court granted a request from the Biden administration and a drug manufacturer to put on hold a ruling by a federal judge in...
Will AI be useful for bioethics?
Will ChatGPT become a bioethical tool? Possibly, but not at the moment. A forum in The Hastings Center focused on this issue. Jon F. Merz,...
China’s revised regulation on human genome editing: the good news and the bad news
Remember the scandalous revelation of the world's first births of genome-modified twins (Lulu and Nana) by Dr He Jiankui in 2018? Recently, China revised its regulation...
Risky and unnecessary embryo genetic testing (PGT-A) in Malaysia is driven by culture
Currently in Malaysia, many fertility clinics strongly encourage and even push their patients to do highly expensive preimplantation genetic testing of their IVF embryos, technically...
Netherlands to broaden euthanasia rules to cover children of all ages
Following Belgium, the Netherlands is set to legalise euthanasia for children. Until now, euthanasia was only available for people over 16, children between 12 and...
Abortion medication heads for the US Supreme Court after duelling courts produce inconsistent results
The legal status of medication abortion is in turmoil in the United States as two judges in different courts issued completely different rulings, both on...
UK lords spar over assisted dying
The United Kingdom is again debating legislation for assisted dying. In late March peers from the House of Lords gave powerful speeches on both sides...
WHO backs IVF industry’s call for government funding for infertility
Large numbers of people are affected by infertility in their lifetime, according to a new report published the World Health Organization. Around 17.5% of the...
Don’t forget about Luxembourg, a world leader in assisted dying
Euthanasia and assisted suicide been legal in Luxembourg since 2009. The person requesting euthanasia or assisted suicide must have a serious, incurable and irreversible affliction...
California teen sues doctors over breast-removal surgery at 13
American children whose lives were ruined by gender-affirmative medication and surgery are resorting to litigation to seek justice. The latest case to surface in the...