Ukraine is using facial recognition technology to identify dead Russians
Ukraine is using facial recognition technology to identify dead Russian soldiers, a senior government official has declared. It then notifies their relatives across the border...
Bioethics after Ukraine
In a thoughtful essay in The Hastings Center blog, Jonathan Moreno, a leading bioethicist, reflects on how bioethics will change after the war in Ukraine....
War creeps closer to Kyiv’s surrogacy industry
Surrogacy became much more complicated on February 24 in Ukraine. With the Russian invasion, it was evident that Kyiv would become a war zone. But...
Munich clinic spurns Russian and Belarus patients
According to the Geneva Convention, doctors should treat equally all non-comabtant patients, even if they are on the side of the enemy. How easy it...
Russian doctors plead for end to war
Thousands of Russian doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers have signed an open letter to President Vladimir Putin urging him to put an end to...
Is the UK slowly approaching legalization of commercial surrogacy?
A debate over the legalization of commercial surrogacy is simmering away on the back burner in the United Kingdom. Last year the Law Commission of...
The health consequences of war in Ukraine will be catastrophic
Shakespeare speaks of the thrill of war in Othello: ‘" the neighing steed and the shrill trumpThe spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,The royal banner, and...
Ukraine’s surrogacy agencies overlooked the worst-case scenario — war
Burnt-out tanks in snowy landscapes, thousands scrambling across borders with their suitcases, soldiers handing out automatic rifles like lollies to civilians, young families huddled together...
Ukraine surrogacy industry prepares for war
According to the BBC, “Russia says it has no plans to attack Ukraine: and armed forces chief Valery Gerasimov even denounced reports of an impending...
Black Friday discounts on babies from Ukraine
Commodification chronicles. It’s Black Friday in Kiev! The Ukrainian clinic BioTexCom is offering 3% off!!!!! on its surrogacy and fertility packages. The discount deal runs...
What is the future of surrogacy in a post-Covid world?
Anyone following the debate over the legal status of surrogacy should read Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy: Between Legitimation and International Abolition, an open source...
Ukraine clinic seeks to genetically engineer babies
The Medeus Clinic also offers “complex rejuvenation and life extension” The ever-alert stem cell scientist and blogger Paul Knoepfler has flagged a Ukrainian clinic which...