Does the autonomy principle work for substance abusers?
Relationships and empathy are far more important Autonomy is the fundamental principle of contemporary bioethics – or most of it. In moral dilemmas, the path...
Disabled groups attack liberalizing euthanasia in Canada
Lobby groups for Canadians with disabilities are working hard to defeat a bill broadening the scope of euthanasia legislation. Under the current legislation, although some...
Mother blocks – temporarily – transgender treatment in BC
Judge issues injunction to stop ‘gender-affirming’ double mastectomy A Supreme Court judge in British Columbia stopped doctors from performing a “gender-affirming” double mastectomy on a...
Military doctors who treated Trump are caught in a web of dilemmas
If he is their Commander-in-chief, can they refuse to give him experimental drugs? President Donald Trump’s brush with Covid-19 raised a number of questions related...
Tasmanian politicians defer vote on euthanasia
Local university will produce report A euthanasia bill passed in the upper house of the Australian state of Tasmania this week. Both sides of the...
After the election
Hi there, The US election dominates the media at the moment. But the rest of the world hasn’t stopped. Our lead story today continues our...
Polish government backs down over abortion
Daily demonstrations seem to have forced their hand In the face of massive protests, the government of Poland has delayed indefinitely the implementation of a...
Election takeaways
What you may have missed in the nightly news The result of America’s 2020 presidential election is still unknown. It seems that Joe Biden has...
We need to move beyond vertebrate-centric bioethics, scholars argue
Squid and honeybees should be recognised as members of our moral community A long-standing prejudice based on feelings of disgust and speciesism has excluded non-vertebrate...
Assisted suicide is a reasonable excuse for overseas travel for locked-down Britons
Along with work and education Britain has entered a second period of hard lockdown to avert a wave of Covid-19 patients swamping hospitals. Holiday travel...
Welcome to the world of ‘platonic co-parenting’
A new phenomenon which is becoming more widespread Another chapter in the history of the reproductive revolution: platonic co-parenting. This involves two people conceiving (naturally...
Al Jonsen, bioethics pioneer, dies
Advised Ted and Bobby Kennedy about abortion A pioneer in the novel field of bioethics, Al Jonsen, died on October 21, at the age of 89....