Euthanasia in Canada. MAiD in hell?
The United Kingdom and other countries are looking to Canada for guidelines about how to legislate for euthanasia. According to a group called UK Humanists,...
Driven mad by eugenics: a true crime drama from Spain
Eugenics with assisted reproduction technology is not new. Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s cousin, devised schemes for making higher and lower humans without the assistance of...
A holistic look at the effect of the Pill on women
Debates about the ethical dimension of the Pill are like smoke-filled 19th Century battlefields “where ignorant armies clash by night”. Inquiry is enveloped by dense...
Police bust kidney network that exploited desperate Indonesians
Jakarta police have arrested 12 people, including a policeman and an immigration officer, for trafficking 122 Indonesians to Cambodia to sell their kidneys. The victims,...
1000 Australian patients lodge class action against cosmetic surgeons
A class action lawsuit by nearly 1000 patients will begin soon in the Australian state of Victoria. The defendants are retired celebrity cosmetic surgeon Daniel...
Two in three cosmetic surgery injections in the UK are not administered by doctors
As many as 68% of cosmetic practitioners who are administering injections such as Botox are not qualified medical doctors, according to an analysis of the...
Singapore must prevent abuses in donation of unused surplus frozen eggs
A recent Channel News Asia article, “Egg donation in Singapore: What couples with complex infertility need to know if they want to have a baby”,...
Faster, higher, stronger with drugs: the Enhanced Olympics
Marion Jones. Lance Armstrong. Ben Johnson. Tim Montgomery. Svetlana Podobedova. The list of drug cheats, athletes who were stripped of gold medals because they used...
Is transgender medicine based on rock-solid evidence?
It is becoming harder and harder to assess claims that transgender medicine is based upon rock-solid evidence. Much of the time, the debate is carried...
Voluntary castration becoming a gender choice
Are there ethical limits to what surgeons should be permitted to do in an age when gender affirmation surgery is permitted? Consider the underground cult...
The dark down-side of California surrogacy
California has become a haven for commercial surrogacy. One of its attractions is that the commissioning parents, in effect, “own” the developing child. The surrogate...
Details of Japan’s experiment with eugenic sterilization released
Japan is confronting stories of forced sterilization and eugenics under a law which was effective from 1948 to 1996. A Parliamentary investigation has found that...