Is abortion a global public health emergency?
Has Covid-19 created a precedent for dealing these emergencies? Around the world, public health measures to cope with Covid-19 -- like social distancing and lockdowns...
‘Dignity in dying’ legislation fails in France and Latvia
Delaying tactics kill bill in French Parliament France: A bill to legalise euthanasia was smothered by delaying tactics in the French Parliament this week. The...
Brain organoids give rise to novel ethical complications
Could we create a ‘Planet of the Apes’? Uh-oh! Something went wrong.... Stem cell research has allowed medicine to go places that were once science...
Knock-on effects of same-sex marriage continue
The definitions of adultery and intercourse have to be modified The legal consequences of same-sex marriage are still working themselves out. Now that sex is...
The co-parenting trend
The bizarre phenomenon of platonic co-parenting seems to be increasingly popular. In fact, a TV network in the UK has created a reality show based on...
Mum and dad lite: parenting without sex, romance, co-habitation or marriage
A ‘new phenomenon picking up speed’ A first date in 'Strangers Making Babies' Amongst the myriad new family forms springing up as traditional marriage loses...
Tasmania becomes third Australian state to pass euthanasia
The new law will come into effect next year Cradle Mountain National Park, in Tasmania Tasmania has passed euthanasia, or voluntary assisted dying (VAD), legislation,...
Dutch euthanasia criticised in leading medical journal
The slippery slope is real, says an American doctor JAMA Internal Medicine hosted a fiery debate about Dutch euthanasia this week. Geriatrician Diane Meier, of...
New Chinese law bans alteration of human genome
Retrospective legislation justifies the jailing of He Jiankui He Jiankui speaking at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing China has updated its criminal...
‘Armenia is facing a demographic catastrophe’
Caught between low birth rates, high infertility and high emigration Monumental statue of Mother Armenia in Yeveran "Armenia is facing a demographic catastrophe," Nune Pashayan,...
Commissioning parents panicking over surrogate mothers’ vaccinations
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the surrogacy industry The intersection of the Covid-19 pandemic and surrogacy has not been a happy one. After international border...
Amitai Etzioni wants Biden to form bioethics commission
Very concerned about genetic engineering The eminent communitarian scholar Amitai Etzioni has called upon President Biden to re-establish a bioethics commission to deal with the...