A blaze of controversy revisited
In late February last year, two Italian academics working at Monash University in Australia flicked a match into a highly combustible pile of old abortion...
An attack on academic freedom?
Some bioethicists who feel at home in the utilitarian common room of the Journal of Medical Ethics described the imbroglio as an attack on academic...
Is advocating infanticide “madness”?
Not everyone in the “pro-life” camp is singing from the same song sheet in the controversy over infanticide. In this month's Journal of Medical Ethics...
Singer and Tooley on the mindset of “pro-lifers”
The infanticide debate in the Journal of Medical Ethics has garnered comments from the grand old men of infanticide, the Australian Peter Singer and the...
“After-birth abortion” already exists in the Netherlands
Dr Eduard Verhagen, a paediatrician at University Medical Centre Groningen in the Netherlands, says that, in his experience, infanticide is sometimes preferable to second-trimestre abortion....
Peter Singer supports “pro-life” free speech
Peter Singer supports free speech for foes of abortion Of course, bioethicists writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics are not the only people who...
Five convictions for Kosovo organ trafficking
Five people have been convicted of organ trafficking in Kosovo by the European Union court which runs the legal system in the quasi-independent territory. Five...
14-year-old girl forced to become pregnant with donor sperm
An unnamed woman in the UK has been jailed for five years after artificially inseminating her 14-year-old adopted daughter in order to get another child....
bioethics and the Boston Marathon bombings
Hi there, Every dramatic event in the headlines seems to have a link to bioethics. This is also true of the Boston Marathon bombings. In...
Did Tamerlan Tsarnaev turn to terror because he was punch drunk?
Here’s the bioethical angle on the Boston Marathon bombing Here’s the bioethical angle on the Boston Marathon bombing: should the brain of Tamerlan Tsarnaev be...
The controversial therapy of “emotional support animals”
Are we exploiting animals by relying on them for solace? As Boston grieves after recent terrorist attack, charity workers have flown in “comfort dogs” to...
Foetal reduction still needed in IVF
Two IVF stories from opposite ends of the globe are a sobering reminder that “foetal reduction” remains a failsafe position in clinical practice.Two IVF stories...