Some guys just like to collect foetal remains. What’s the big deal?
A horrifying discovery on the property of a deceased American abortionist Fort Wayne Police Department searches a former abortion clinic owned by Dr. Ulrich Klopfer...
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Turning human remains into compost for your tomatoes An artist's rendering of the future Recompose facility / Recompose website The first person to be legally...
Is Trump’s migration policy eugenic?
Excluding them on the basis of health is wrong, says bioethicistfrom The Greenlining Institute Critics of the Trump Administration have a long list of derogatory...
Google bans ads for ‘bad actors’ selling ‘deceptive treatments’
The tech giant declares war on 'untested, deceptive treatments'Tech giant Google will ban advertisements for experimental medical treatments on its platforms, announcing in a blog...
When love in a marriage is dead…
What if your spouse-to-be is brain dead? Wang and Lin's wedding / Wang family Here’s a curly one about informed consent. Can you marry someone...
Transhuman in the race for Transhumanist Party leadership
There are nine candidates Vrillon, trans-human candidate With the election of the US President only 14 months away, the US Transhumanist Party is in the...
English juries grapple with ‘mercy killing’
Two recent cases in England show how tricky it isMavis and Ken Eccleston The definition of mercy killing is very elastic, as two recent cases...
Canadian Catholic hospital drops opposition to MAiD after criticism from bioethicist
A Catholic hospital in Nova Scotia has quietly changed its policy on euthanasiaA Catholic hospital in Nova Scotia has quietly changed its policy on Medical...
A judge loosens Canada’s euthanasia belt another notch or two
Patients no longer need to be terminally ill Something north of 8,000 people have died in Canada after its Medical Aid in Dying legislation came...
Dutch doctor acquitted of unlawful euthanasia
The first in the history of the controversial law to trigger criminal charges In a landmark case, a Dutch doctor who euthanised a severely demented...
‘Medical ethics’ is ethics by, for and about medics, not common morality, says bioethicist
‘The ethics of medicine is internal to the profession’ The presence of the word “ethics” in “medical ethics” (and “bioethics”) suggests to the hoi polloi...
Doctors are ‘professionals’ and should leave religion out of it
Medicine has its own rules As if to illustrate Rosamond Rhodes’s thesis (see other BioEdge article), Udo Schuklenk argues, also in the Journal of Medical...