“Human dignity”: more action in the trenches
A bioethicist at Weill Cornell Medical College has fired another salvo in the battle of human dignity. Writing in the May issue of the journal...
Should surrogacy become a profession and not just another job?
Two New Zealand bioethicists have suggested that surrogacy should be treated as a dignified profession, not just contract work. America’s most fecund surrogate mother has...
Another heroic figure in the reproduction revolution
As the gap between love and sex grows wider and wider, peculiar new professions crop up. Der Spiegel recently featured a 42-year-old Dutch man who...
UK launches inquiry into donor conception
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics, in the UK, is conducting an inquiry into how much information people need to know about their genetic origins. People...
Mickey Rooney highlights the danger of elder abuse
Mickey Rooney features in a documentary about the dangers of elder abuse. Mickey Rooney, the Hollywood icon who testified before the US Congress about his...
Canadian bioethicist asks, why have children?
Is it good to have children? Most people would think so, but there is a range of views amongst utilitarian bioethicists. The latest contribution to...
A week of IVF
Hi there, The news in bioethics ebbs and flows. One week it’s organ transplants, the next it’s euthanasia and this week it’s IVF. We discovered...
Are IVF clinics hiding the risks of PGD from parents?
American couples who have pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) done on their embryos are almost never informed of the potential risks of the procedure, a Wellesley...
94 embryos perish in Rome hospital in refrigeration mishap
The Italian government is investigating an IVF clinic in Rome after 94 embryos, 130 eggs and 5 sperm samples were destroyed when its refrigeration system...
Parents can have a duty to use IVF, say bioethicists
Yet another controversial utilitarian proposal has popped up in the March issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Two bioethicists contend that some parents are...
British doctor may have fathered more than 600 children
A British doctor may have fathered more than 600 children by using his own sperm in his London fertility clinic. Toronto film-maker Barry Stevens has...
“Octomom” regrets her IVF pregnancy
Octomom, the California single mother who gave birth to octuplets, has had to resort to humiliating ways of making ends meet for her 14 children...