What Canada’s candidates have to say about MAiD
Trudeau will expand MAiD access if re-elected. Andrew Scheer (l) and Justin Trudeau (r) Canada heads to a general election on October 21, and polls...
Bioethicists defend euthanasia for mentally ill
Is there a meaningful difference between physical and psychological suffering? A new edition of the American Journal of Bioethics explores the theme of euthanasia for...
No BioEdge this week
There will be no BioEdge this week. Monday is Labour Day and in the great tradition of celebrating the working man, we will not be...
Canada’s euthanasia regime under fire
I thought that Canadians were not eligible for euthanasia unless they were suffering from a terminal illness. So did the relatives of 61-year-old Alan Nichols,...
Canada’s MAiD under fire after euthanasia of depressed patient
The man's family allege that he was not eligible for MAiD. Serious concerns have been raised about the implementation of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying...
UK High Court defines ‘motherhood’ in controversial transgender case
Guardian journalist vows to appeal A trans man in the United Kingdom has lost his bid to be deemed a father on his child’s birth...
Is it ethical for deaf parents to choose to have deaf children?
Much depends on whether you see deafness as a disability 'The Country of the Blind' H.G. Wells, with his acute sense of ethical dilemmas in...
Abortion legalised in Australia’s most populous state
Fierce debate threatened to fracture government NSW Parliament Abortion will be legal everywhere in Australia after the New South Wales Parliament passed a bill decriminalising...
Italy’s highest court rules that assisted suicide is permissible
Italy's Constitutional Court ruled this week that assisted suicide is legal if a person is experiencing “intolerable physical and psychological suffering". Anyone who "facilitates the...
Should patients with anorexia be force fed?
Yes, says a Hong Kong lawyer Anorexia nervosa is a serious and chronic mental illness – and the one with the highest mortality rate, about...
Defending conscientious objection
The latest issue of ‘The New Bioethics’ has several interesting articles Photo by JC Gellidon on Unsplash One of the hottest topics in bioethics today is conscientious objection...
Collectables
I had a friend once whose dad collected clapped-out old refrigerators. As hobbies go, it was pretty harmless, although disposing of 34 useless refrigerators was...