Another frontier in the Reproductive Revolution: social surrogacy
Hollywood actresses don’t want to hurt their careers One of Arnold Schwarzenegger's worst films, Junior A Los Angeles fertility doctor is facilitating social surrogacy for...
On a mission from FEN: assisted dying outside the law
A common argument for the legalisation of assisted suicide is that it will stop people from helping spouses, relatives and friends to die illegally. It...
Downloading happiness
The latest transhumanist prediction America’s leading transhumanist is back! In the news, that is. Zoltan Istvan, the transhumanist candidate for president in 2016, has been...
Misreporting science is unethical and even dangerous
Sensationalism is rife in science journalism. I work in the field of bioprinting, where the aim is to build biological tissues by printing living cells...
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We cover a wide range of issues in this newsletter, ranging from whether brain-damaged Frenchman Vincent Lambert should be allowed to die to whether IVF...
Furious debate in France over ending the life of brain-damaged man
The case of Vincent Lambert has split the nation In a case which has divided France as Terri Schiavo’s did in the US, a Frenchman...
BBC films abuse of mentally ill
Patients with learning disabilities or autism were victims of staff a scene from the BBC documentary about Whorlton Hall hospital Overshadowed by the resignation of...
Feminists call to abolish surrogacy in Europe
Not just regulation, but root and branch eradication A French feminist group, the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood (ICASM), has asked candidates...
Parents of deceased West Point cadet get right to use his sperm to create a child
Judge says that the man would have agreed although there is no written proof Peter Zhu A New York judge has ruled that the...
Will IVF affect human evolution?
Will couples pass infertility on to their children? Natural selection is one of the principal mechanisms of evolution -- “survival of the fittest”, as it...
We need a ‘privacy bill of rights’, says psychiatrist
Loss of control over personal data can be ‘destabilising’ for some people Bioethics needs to promote privacy, not only of patients’ data but also in...
Is unmasking sperm donors immoral?
A Belgian bioethicist points out serious problems of informed consent The successes of donor-conceived children who have used the internet to find parents and siblings...