Texas doctor found guilty of poisoning patients
A Texas anaesthetist has been convicted on charges of injecting patients' IV bags with dangerous drugs, which led to the death of a co-worker and...
China accused of sequencing Tibetan and Uyghur DNA to supply organ transplant market
A committee of the US Congress has heard shocking testimony about alleged forced organ harvesting from Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners in China. The chairman...
European Parliament describes surrogacy as a form of human trafficking
The European Parliament has described “the exploitation of surrogacy” as a form of human trafficking in a legislative resolution on April 23 in its Human...
‘Forced surrogacy’ reported in the UK
A British charity working with victims of modern slavery has reported that it had received three reports of “forced surrogacy” for the first time. Unseen said that calls...
We should react to atrocities in Gaza, says bioethicists
The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is creating tensions within the bioethics community. In an article in the Canadian blog Impact Ethics, three bioethicists...
Quadriplegic Quebec man chooses assisted dying rather than live with bedsores
A quadriplegic Quebec man has chosen assisted dying because of a bedsore he acquired when a hospital failed to give him a special pressure mattress. ...
Transgender medicine critic Hilary Cass given police protection
The author of the recent review of Britain’s gender identity services for children and young people has told The Times (of London) that she needs police protection...
Shady American company advertises kit for semen theft
A Texas company marketing its “at home insemination kit” on social media is encouraging women to use the semen from a partner’s used condom to...
Million dollar surrogacy baby
I cringe with shame as I write this, but before I read her interview in People magazine, I had never heard of Adrienne Bailon-Houghton. There, I’ve...
Commercial surrogacy hammered in Rome
Momentum in growing in Europe for a global ban on surrogacy. Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni has blasted surrogacy as an “inhuman practice”. Addressing a...
Canadian man wins right to a government-funded ‘penile-preserving vaginoplasty’
An Ontario man has won the right to government-funded gender-affirming surgery in the United States which will give him both a vagina and a penis. ...
14-year-olds will be able to change their gender legally in Germany
German lawmakers have made it easier for transgender, intersex and non-binary people to change their official gender. A controversial Self-Determination Act passed easily last week. ...