Inadvertent incest after IVF is real
Historic news flash in the chronicles of the Reproductive Revolution! A CNN investigation of the aftermath of “fertility fraud” – doctors impregnating their patients with their own...
Former Dutch PM and his wife die together in ‘duo euthanasia’
They may have been the most publicised deaths in the history of euthanasia in the Netherlands. A former prime minister of the country and his...
Ecuador’s high court legalizes euthanasia
Ecuador has become the third country in Latin America to permit euthanasia and assisted suicide. Last week its Constitutional Court decreed by a vote of 7...
‘Terminalism’: discrimination against the dying is wrong
Unjust discrimination is a focal point of bioethics discourse. Bioethicists battle sexism, racism, classism, speciesism, ableism, and ageism. Do they really need another ism? Yes,...
Is one of the most common methods of IVF and expensive and dangerous waste of time?
One of the most common methods of IVF for infertile couples around the globe may be an expensive and invasive waste of time and may...
German bioethicists: abolish conscientious objection to protect the right to abortion
The battle against conscientious objection (CO) continues. Just published on the website of BMC Medical Ethics is an article by three bioethicists from Aachen University in Germany...
Is there a human right to sexual pleasure? If so, should the government subsidize it?
In recent years, some bioethicists have tackled the thorny topic of a right to sexual pleasure. People with disabilities often cannot experience this. Is this...
Ukraine legalizes post-mortem sperm donation
Ukraine’s parliament has approved a law which permits the frozen sperm of soldiers to be used if they are killed in action. An earlier law...
FDA approves first gene-editing therapy
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel), the first cell-based gene-editing therapy to utilise the CRISPR/Cas9 system (CRISPR) in history, to treat transfusion-dependent...
Is ‘assisted dying’ really about autonomy?
One of the most puzzling features of assisted dying is the distinction between physician assisted suicide and euthanasia. In the former, the patient administers the...
Leading French IVF specialist alarmed at fertility developments
One of France’s leading IVF experts appears to be having a change of heart about his specialty. René Frydman has no ethical objections to IVF,...
Iran: ‘a paradise for trans people’?
At the moment, on the world stage, Iran is best known for making mischief in the Middle East. However there is another side to the...