Green light for UK CRISPR embryo research
Developmental biologist Kathy Niakan has received permission from the UK HFEA to edit the genome of embryos. Developmental biologist Kathy Niakan has received permission from...
Bioethics and royalty
A Belgian court has granted Delphine Boel, a 46-year-old artist currently living in the UK, the right to seek legal recognition of her alleged royal...
US government to pay for sex resassignment surgery
The US Department of Health and Human Services has ruled that that transgender people are entitled to sex-change surgery provided under Medicare Advantage insurers. An...
Euthanasia continues to rise in Belgium
The number of euthanasia cases in Belgium exceeded two thousand in 2015. The number of euthanasia cases annually in Belgium has exceeded two thousand for...
French surrogate mother cheats clients
A French surrogate mother has been arrested for fraud after lying to two gay couples about the death of their children. A French surrogate mother...
Activists use Zika epidemic to press for abortion in Brazil
The abortion debate has been reignited in Brazil amid fears about severe birth defects linked to the Zika virus. A woman in Brazil holds her...
‘No Mas Bebes’
A new documentary tells the story of several mexican women who in the late 1960s and early 1970s were sterilized in US hospitals. A new...
Tables turned on undercover pro-life activists
Pro-life activist David Daleiden has been indicted by a Grand Jury in Harris County, Texas. In a surprise twist to the recent Planned Parenthood controversy,...
London sperm bank allegedly promoting eugenics
It excludes donors with history of certain diseases. The largest sperm bank in the UK is being investigated by the national fertility regulator for promoting...
New French law creates right to terminal sedation
Critics suspect that it is a disguised form of euthanasia The French National Assembly has approved a law which creates a right to terminal sedation...
Pope sets out his bioethics priorities
Care for the environment heads the list. Sentences with the two words “Pope” and “bioethics” are normally accompanied by a “not”: prohibitions of therapies and...
Plus ça change
The Atlantic recently published a feature about the early days of artificial reproductive technology. The headline was: “The First Artificial Insemination Was an Ethical Nightmare:...