Call for Belgium to revise euthanasia legislation
Doctors and ethicists protest "death as therapy". Although legalised euthanasia is widely accepted amongst Belgian doctors and politicians and a pet cause of the media,...
The socialite and her dialysis machine
Is 'life's not much fun any more' good enough reason to refuse treatment? Is “life is no fun any more” sufficient and rational reason to...
Debating the word “naturalness”
I’m not surprised that a new report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, an influential independent British bioethics think tank, has received no publicity. “Ideas...
Summit fails to ban genetic engineering of human embryos
Door needs to be left open for further possibilties. Gene-editing with the four-year-old CRISPR technique is already so promising that a meeting of American, British...
Debate begins over ethics of genetic editing
The same issues as the fight over embryonic stem cells At the heart of the debate over the use of CRISPR technology for gene-editing is...
Chinese scientists could clone humans
Plants in Tianjin plans to produce one million cloned cows a year by 2020.The Boyalife cloning factory in Tianjin Cloning has been off the...
US surrogates with triplets pressured to abort
New York ponders removing the state's commercial surrogacy ban.Melissa Cook Two surrogate mothers who are pregnant with triplets are being pressured by the prospective...
IVF booming in China
Abolition of one-child policy builds business China’s decision to abolish the one-child policy made many couples happy – and many IVF clinics. Business is booming,...
Surrogacy in Mexico
Poor women exploited by US surrogacy agencies. Another documentary about the dark side of surrogacy, this time in Mexico. Channel 4 journalist Kiki King interviews...
Doin’ what comes natur’lly
Nuffield Council on Bioethics releases report on "naturalness" A new medical technology encounters the most resistance when Joe Bloggs thinks it is “unnatural”. If you...
Is the antibiotic apocalypse nigh?
Experts warn that it is creeping closer. In practice contemporary bioethics assumes a constantly increasing standard of medicine. The challenge is to ensure that healthcare...
The underground Dutch system for do-it-yourself euthanasia
Right-to-die groups are promoting a "peaceful pill" The leading Dutch right-to-die society is seeking talks with the Dutch medical association (KNMG) for approval of a...