Bioethics writer warns of ‘public health imperialism’
After three innocent children were gunned down in three months in the American state of New Mexico, the Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, announced a 30-day...
Euthanasia nurses in Belgium smother patient when lethal drugs fail to work
Alexina Wattiez wasn’t supposed to die like this. The 36-year-old Belgian woman was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2021. She deteriorated rapidly and was in...
Georgia will shut down its commercial surrogacy industry in 2024
The war in Ukraine is changing the geography of commercial surrogacy. Before the war, Ukraine was the surrogacy capital of Europe, with good medical care,...
Egg freezing and the mating gap
Why are women freezing their eggs in record numbers? A new book from NYU Press, Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze...
Canada’s surrogacy industry has a seedy side
Commercial surrogacy is a many-faceted problem, ethically, medically, and politically. One feature which seldom surfaces in sanitised accounts of surrogacy is the business side. As...
Israeli team creates synthetic human embryos without eggs or sperm
An Israeli research team at the Weizmann Institute of Science has created artificial human embryos from stem cells cultured in the lab – and managed...
Toronto’s MAiDHouse: a pleasant place to pass
An interesting aspect of the normalization of euthanasia in Canada is the MAIDHouse. People who want to access MAiD, Canada’s acronym for medical assistance in...
Mexico decriminalises abortion
Mexico's supreme court has decriminalised abortion for the entire country. Its supreme court has declared that refusing to provide terminations violates the human rights of...
Is conception by robots the future of IVF?
IVF is becoming more and more remote from the mother and father responsible for an embryo’s creation. Scientists in Barcelona, Spain, claim that they are...
‘I want to die trying to live’, say British teen
A British teenager who wants to live and a UK hospital who wants her to die are locked in a dramatic dispute over her future....
Skin lightening creams are a national health emergency, say authorities in Nigeria and Ghana
In West Africa a lighter skin tone is perceived as a gateway to better social and economic prospects. Unsurprisingly, then, skin lightening has become a...
New professional standards are weaponizing ‘kindness’, say some UK doctors
The General Medical Council, the regulatory body for doctors in the UK, recently updated its guidelines for professional behaviour, “Good medical practice”. Most news reports...