Will Canada continue to ban advance directives?
Woman uses her euthanasia death to lobby for change Friends bid Audrey Parker good-bye / Chris Donovan, Globe and Mail Audrey Parker, a 57-year-old Canadian...
Mother seeks to swap female embryo for a male embryo
The woman has used social media to find someone willing to trade embryos. A New York mother has attracted international media attention for trying to...
Normalising assisted suicide
It happened so long ago that the exact details are dim in my mind, but I seem to remember that a nominee for the US...
Surrogacy under threat after Trump vows to remove birthright citizenship
Deals could become legally fraught Bioethics in American politics. Donald Trump’s vow to remove the right to citizenship to babies born in the United States...
Did the leader in California’s governor’s race assist his mother’s suicide?
Gavin Newsom makes a startling admission in interview with The New Yorker More bioethics in American politics. As election day on Tuesday approaches, Democrat Gavin...
Merck & Co attacked after it pulls out of West African deal to supply rotavirus vaccine
Conflicting views on why Merck is selling to China but not to Africa Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co is under fire for ending a six-year...
“Wow, we both got to carry the baby”
Another chapter in the Reproductive Revolution Bliss (l) and Ashleigh (r) Coulter with son Stetson Another chapter in the Reproductive Revolution. Lesbian couples who want...
‘I feel your pain!’ Really?
Why do Americans suffer more nowadays? “I feel your pain,” Bill Clinton told an AIDS activist in the 1992 presidential campaign. Well, he probably didn’t....
German nurse confesses to 100 murders; could be many more
The truth will probably never be known Niels Högel covers his face in the courtroom As we reported a year ago, a nursing home nurse in...
Frankenstein: the real experiments that inspired the fictional science
In the Romantic era, the notion that there was an intimate relationship between electricity and the processes of life was commonOn January 17, 1803, a...
Doctor sued over Chris Cornell’s death
The singer's wife alleges that Cornell was prescribed excessive doses of Ativan The wife of the late American rockstar Chris Cornell is suing a Los...
Canadian MP tables bill to formalise MAiD conscience protections
The bill would make it an offence to coerce a healthcare professional into providing MAiD A Canadian MP has tabled a bill that seeks to...