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...
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...
