Conscientious objection under fire
If you can invoke CO not to do abortions, why not appeal to CO to do them? Conscientious objection to abortion and euthanasia is a...
Viewing Covid deaths in nursing homes through a feminist lens
Society needs take personal relationships more into account Feminist bioethics may be good lens through which to assess how we care for the elderly, especially...
Why doesn’t the West help Africa as it staggers under Covid?
Liberian health official writes damning article in Nature The former director-general of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia, Mosoka Fallah, has written a scathing...
Did human genome editor He Jiankui deserve to be disgraced?
Not necessarily, say bioethicists He Jiankui in his salad days When Chinese researcher He Jiankui announced in late 2018 that he had helped to create...
Is wokeness invading American medical schools?
Is the notion of sex just socially constructed? In a case reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2019, a transgender man (a...
Biden Administration tries to incentivise vaccinations
President suggests that states offer $100 to people who get their jab According to the Biden Administration, 164 million Americans have been fully vaccinated, including...
Euthanasia in the Netherlands
Foreign observers might have the impression that it is always open season for euthanasia in the Netherlands. Not so. While the guidelines are elastic and...
Netherlands euthanasia 1: the fundamentalists
Foreign observers might have the impression that it is always open season for euthanasia in the Netherlands. Not so. While the guidelines are elastic and...
Netherlands euthanasia 2: the public prosecutor objects
Turf war over regulation of doctors who help people die Photo by Catalina Fedorova on Unsplash The Dutch public prosecutor department and regional euthanasia review...
Ireland sidesteps ‘assisted dying’ debate – for now
An MP’s bill has been dismissed on technical grounds Gino Kenny in a debate over 'assisted dying' / screenshot Newstalk “Assisted dying” is a live issue...
Kodokushi: Japan’s problem with the old and isolated
The ethics of pressuring the elderly to have wearable devices Memories One consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic in Japan appears to be an increase in...
Policy shift in Finland for gender dysphoria treatment
Experts are sceptical about the evidence base for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash The international activist group SEGM, the...