Is eco-anxiety grounds for euthanasia?
Vancouver man Howard Breen, 68, has applied for Medical Aid in Dying, Canada’s pathway to legal euthanasia. He is not terminally ill, but he is...
UK babies may have their whole genome sequenced at birth
In the UK, as in many other countries, hospitals routinely conduct a heelprick blood test on newborns shortly after they are born. The blood sample...
Covid chronicles: an abandoned surrogate baby
International surrogacy has been a big topic during the Covid pandemic. Commissioning parents were stranded on one side of a border and their surrogate and...
More pushback after SCOTUS leak
A number of journalists and politicians have issued dire forecasts of what will happen if the US Supreme Court does strike down Roe v. Wade...
Did legalizing abortion in Ethiopia lead to fewer deaths?
In 2005 Ethiopia legalized abortion in the hope of reducing maternal mortality. Its law was quite liberal – more or less like abortion legislation in...
Indian surgeon seeks to make transwoman pregnant
A New Delhi surgeon plans to transplant a uterus into a transwoman – a biological man – to enable him to give birth to a...
Is it possible to transplant heads?
Heaven has different meanings for different people. For some transhumanists HEAVEN is an acronym for (HEad Anastomosis VENture), an attempt by an Italian and a...
Former Archbishop of Canterbury promotes euthanasia in Australia
The former Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, has sent a message to the Parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales, urging it...
Recipient of pig’s heart dies
The xenotransplant patient who made history by receiving a pig heart has died, about 40 days after his operation. David Bennett, a 57-year-old with serious...
Colombian high court legalizes assisted suicide
Colombia's Constitutional Court handed down a 6-3 decision last week to decriminalise assisted suicide. Although there are still significant legal obstacles, euthanasia has been legal...
Sperm donation: a complicated business
Research into online sperm donation. An English university is embarking upon a four-year study of on-line sperm donation. Leeds Beckett University, in West Yorkshire, will...
JAMA appoints new editor for new times
Last year, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) lost both its deputy editor and its editor. To rephrase Oscar Wilde’s quip: to lose...