Who ‘pulls the plug’ for an abused child?
What if the parents are drug addicts who effectively beat her to death?Gabriella's parents, Brittany Rodriquez and Andrew Lamorie The question of who is authorised...
We need a national male reproductive health policy, say researchers
We are in a crisis, say some scientists“Of the 193 United Nations states, only one – Australia – has developed an effective national male reproductive...
Major gaps persist in knowledge of the practice of assisted suicide and euthanasia
Even 25 years after legalisation in OregonOn November 8, 1994, the citizens of Oregon voted in favour of a Death With Dignity Act. It took...
Savulescu interviewed on ‘procreative beneficence’
This interview gives a good insight into his theoriesShould we use genetic testing to choose which children to bring into the world? How should we...
Dead man walking?
It sounds like the premise for a Stephen King novel, but it’s real life. Benjamin Schreiber, a 66-year-old man, is serving a life sentence for...
Researchers criticise IVF ‘add-ons’
IVF experts have criticised fertility clinics for marketing expensive additional therapiesIVF experts have criticised fertility clinics for selling expensive additional therapies to women receiving IVF...
In defence of conscientious objection
A leading ethics journal has published a feature issue on conscientious objectionA newly released edition of the journal Perspectives in Medicine and Biology focuses on...
About meaning and purpose
With IVF firmly established legally and socially, the status of children has become a bit murky. Initially IVF was a remedy for medical infertility for...
Brain-damaged woman given permission to have IVF baby to get ‘more meaning and purpose in life’
Another controversial ruling from London’s Court of Protection The Court of Protection, in London, has to deal with head-spinning cases about people who are incapable...
Could the threat of lawsuits rein in gender dysphoria doctors?
Courts are ignoring recent evidence Critics of transgender treatment for children have been making heavy weather of persuading people that it could be medically dangerous....
Is bioethics fading away?
Sociologists will inherit their mantle, says Cambridge sociologist The etymological roots of the word “bioethics” suggest that its subject is the principles governing the morality...
Medical ethics: too important to leave to doctors
Let’s not return to the bad old days of paternalism In an article earlier this year in the Journal of Medical Ethics and in a...