Police blotter
Surrogacy. Sperm donation. Adoption. Surrogacy. A 40-year-old woman and her 37-year-old husband have been convicted in Iowa after smuggling a Guatemalan girl across the Mexican...
Mass gatherings: OK. Mass: not OK
What happens if the George Floyd protesters fall sick with coronavirus?If you can remember that long ago, the only protesters defying Covid-19 lockdowns in the...
Should lockdown protesters forfeit their right to medical care?
Some bioethicists have little sympathy for them Protests in US state capitals against coronavirus lockdowns have become a familiar feature of nightly news bulletins. In...
Unclean! Unclean!
Maskless shopper sparks panic How much of a help are masks in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? Absolutely essential, it seems, to New Yorkers. One woman...
Is bioethics an honest profession? The jury’s still out
Two practitioners hit back at scepticism Back in 1976, a young bioethicist named Peter Singer wrote, “bioethics is still in its infancy, and its rich...
Covid-19 pandemic strands babies in Georgia, too
Ukraine is not alone A birth at Chachava Clinic in Tbilisi About a hundred babies born to surrogate mothers in Ukraine are separated from the parents...
Armenia takes drastic measures to reverse population decline
Testing 15-year-olds? Not getting any younger in Armenia The tiny but fiercely distinctive and geo-politically strategic nation of Armenia is facing a demographic crisis. Its...
Monkeying around with coronavirus
The number and range of articles about Covid-19 in the bioethics arena alone is staggering. However, the topic of privacy and confidentiality has not been...
Ethicists double down on utilitarian framework for pandemics
Three Oxford ethicists have defended utilitarian pandemic ethics. Utilitarianism medical ethics has come under heavy fire in recent months. Many commentators have, for example, criticised...
Queensland government postpones euthanasia legislation
The government faces a tough election battle in October. The Queensland State Government has postponed the introduction of controversial voluntary euthanasia legislation as it prepares...
Immunity passports controversy
The coronavirus pandemic should have been an Iwo Jima moment for utilitarian bioethicists with their flag fluttering proudly on a blood-soaked hilltop. After all, the emergency...
Immunity passports: a privacy nightmare or the key to ending lockdowns?
The WHO opposes the idea The ethics of immunity passports is certain to become a focus for national debates as coronavirus lockdowns ease up. Estonia...