Indian IVF and surrogacy clinics rush to register
India is attempting to regulate its chaotic IVF sector. The milestone Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 set down that reproductive services like IVF, surrogacy,...
Does legalising assisted suicide really decrease non-assisted suicide?
Legalising assisted suicide and euthanasia increases the risk of suicide, according to recent research by the UK’s Anscombe Bioethics Centre. This contradicts the conventional wisdom...
25th anniversary of Oregon’s ‘Death With Dignity Act’
Oregon is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the state’s Death with Dignity Act. Governor Kate Brown officially declared October 27 “End-of-Life Options Day” in Oregon....
Georgia is becoming an international surrogacy hub
Every cloud has a silver lining. War in Ukraine is creating difficulties for its surrogacy industry. But some potential customers are looking to the small...
Any day now: the moment humanity reaches ‘peak child’
“There are now 8 billion people in the world — but overpopulation should be the least of your worries.” This is not a headline that...
FDA objects to advance prescribing of medication abortions
Wondering about the safety of medication abortions? This news out of Texas is thought-provoking. A personal injuries attorney, Mason Herring, and his wife were having...
Blood in the water: trial lawyers nibble at transgender medical treatments
Outside of the United States, few people have probably heard that carcinogens have been found in the water at Camp Lejeune, a big Marine Corps...
Disabled Canadian man complains about pressure to accept assisted suicide because his care costs too much
In an on-going case in Ontario, a severely disabled man is suing the Canadian government and local health authorities for poor care and for pushing...
Democrats have bet heavily on abortion in the midterms. Will their strategy work?
Today Americans vote in their midterm elections. The Democrats’ campaign strategy was to place big bets on abortion rights after Dobbs. They believed that they...
An Australian suicide puts Dr Philip Nitschke back on the media stage
Dr Philip Nitschke, the veteran Australian activist for the right to suicide, is back in the news again. A feature in The Australian revealed that...
What the world needs now is more bioethicists. Or not?
In a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, one of America’s leading voices in bioethics, Emanuel J. Ezekiel, said that Covid had...
Israeli IVF clinic delivers the wrong baby
After undergoing IVF an Israeli woman has given birth to a child which is not biologically related to her or to her husband. She was...