95% of Irish women who know that their unborn child is Down syndrome have abortions
Abortion was only legalized in Ireland in 2018. One of the consequences is that the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, a leading maternity hospital, reports that...
Massachusetts politicians propose prisoners as organ donors
Massachusetts is a state where conservatism goes to die, so it was astonishing to read a bill in its legislature to effectively pay prisoners for...
Peru’s forced sterilization tragedy drags on in the courts
For at least 25 years, indigenous Peruvian women have been fighting for justice after they were forcibly sterilized by doctors working for the government of...
Japanese PM says that his country is falling off a demographic cliff
Japan’s Prime Minister has warned that his country will fall over an economic and social cliff unless it manages to reverse its population decline. “Our...
Houellebecq savages euthanasia
Michel Houellebecq, France’s popular but controversial novelist, has stepped once more unto the breach in his crusade against euthanasia. Houellebecq’s profile as an agnostic, obscene,...
Loneliness, the silent killer
Doctors need to pay more attention to social isolation and loneliness (SIL) in treating patients, according to a “Perspective” article in the New England Journal...
Gentle giant’s skeleton removed from museum
Earlier this month the Royal College of Surgeons, in London, announced that it will remove from the display cases of the Hunterian Museum the skeleton...
Stem cell huckster sent to jail for 202 years
A 71-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 202 years in jail for selling fake stem cell treatments in several states. Jimmy Lee Taylor was...
Canada leads the world in organ donation euthanasia
Canada legalised euthanasia in 2016, long after Belgium and the Netherlands, but it is already the world leader in organ donation euthanasia. A survey of...
Are Canadians having buyer’s remorse about euthanasia?
Finally, after 40,000 or so deaths, Canadians are having second thoughts about legalised euthanasia. Euthanasia deaths in Canada have shot upwards like a skyrocket. In...
New horizons for surrogacy: ‘whole body gestational donation’
It is amazing that no one has ever discussed this at length before. What about all those brain-stem dead female bodies in hospital beds? Why...
Promises to keep: medical graduates and their oaths
A survey of oaths taken by medical students in the United States and Canada in 2014 and 2015 suggests that doctors are beginning their career...