Have ‘male’ and ‘female’ become cusswords in contemporary bioethics?
The Journal of Controversial Ideas is an unusual academic publication. Its articles are peer-reviewed and rigorously edited. Its editors are leading philosophers and bioethicists -–...
Pronatalism continues to intrigue the media
The notion of pronatalism – encouraging, not discouraging, population growth– hasn’t had a good press in recent decades, especially with fears of over-population and global...
Dutch sperm donor who fathered hundreds of children ordered to stop
A 41-year-old Dutch man who has fathered more than 550 children has been ordered by a court to stop donating sperm. Jonathan Meijer will be...
Are medication abortion drugs polluting waterways?
The abortion industry is polluting America’s water and the government is ignoring it, according to a citizens’ petition lodged with the US Food and Drug...
US Supreme Court allows abortion pill to remain widely available while appeals proceed
Last week the Supreme Court granted a request from the Biden administration and a drug manufacturer to put on hold a ruling by a federal judge in...
Elon Musk: the world will end with ‘a whimper in adult diapers”
Tucker Carlson, the most popular host on US cable TV, has been sacked by Fox News. In one of his final interviews he spoke with...
Victoria: should we do away with the dead donor rule?
Lobbying to do away with the dead donor rule and even to make possible organ donor euthanasia has begun in the state of Victoria, in...
Will AI be useful for bioethics?
Will ChatGPT become a bioethical tool? Possibly, but not at the moment. A forum in The Hastings Center focused on this issue. Jon F. Merz,...
Miklos Lukacs: a perceptive observer of the rise of transhumanism
Surely there must be a thread linking the great bioethical and cultural challenges of our time: transgenderism, transhumanism, artificial reproduction, population decline, wokeism (or post-modernism,...
China’s revised regulation on human genome editing: the good news and the bad news
Remember the scandalous revelation of the world's first births of genome-modified twins (Lulu and Nana) by Dr He Jiankui in 2018? Recently, China revised its regulation...
Risky and unnecessary embryo genetic testing (PGT-A) in Malaysia is driven by culture
Currently in Malaysia, many fertility clinics strongly encourage and even push their patients to do highly expensive preimplantation genetic testing of their IVF embryos, technically...
Netherlands to broaden euthanasia rules to cover children of all ages
Following Belgium, the Netherlands is set to legalise euthanasia for children. Until now, euthanasia was only available for people over 16, children between 12 and...