Iranian doctors cooperating with judicial amputations
A special guillotine machine has allegedly been installed in a medical clinic in an Iranian prison to carry out amputations. The World Medical Association has...
What happened to the bones of Waterloo?
One of the most dehumanising practices of the Nazis at Auschwitz and other extermination camps was recycling the bodies of murdered victims. Often their bones...
War or no war, Ukrainian surrogacy is up and running and open for business
Despite the war with Russia, surrogacy agencies in Ukraine are still accepting clients for their surrogate mothers. An article in Toronto’s Globe and Mail paints...
Indian doctors are removing the wombs of cane-cutters to increase productivity
This is a horror story from India about the intersection of poverty, sexism, exploitation, gender norms, and medical ethics. Investigative reporting in BehanBox, a feminist...
Israeli scientists create ‘synthetic’ mouse embryos
Israeli scientists have created the world’s first “synthetic embryos”. They used mouse stem cells to create embryos, nurtured them in an artificial “womb”, and grew...
Threat of class action suit for UK’s Tavistock gender clinic
The UK’s only gender clinic, the Tavistock, has been ordered to close next year over concerns for the safety of its patients. This bad news...
World Medical Association protects conscientious objection by rejecting mandatory referral
Principled conscientious objection (CO) for health care workers is under threat from laws in several jurisdictions around the world. A number of prominent bioethicists have...
The lasting anguish of moral injury
On a Sunday evening in September 1994, David Peters drove to a church service in Beckley, West Virginia, as the sun set over the horizon....
Canada topped 10,000 euthanasia deaths in 2021
There have been 0 deaths from monkeypox in Canada, but the disease has received considerably more media attention than the 10,064 people who died under...
Monkeypox is now a national health emergency in US
The Biden Administration has declared the monkeypox epidemic a national health emergency, following New York and the United Nations. There have been nearly 7,000 cases...
Whatever happened to transhumanism?
In 2004 the prominent political scientist Francis Fukuyama described transhumanism as “the world’s most dangerous idea”. In 2011 transhumanism was featured on the cover of...
Is human germline editing compatible with human dignity?
Human germline editing, whether it is for health reasons or for the more ambitious project of Transhumanism, is intensely controversial. International bioethics agreements ban or...