Obama’s Bioethics Commission: Providing Practical Policy Options

June 26, 2009

Last week President Obama disbanded the President’s Council on Bioethics and signaled plans to replace it with a new bioethics commission. A White House press officer told The New York Times that the council was being disbanded “because it was designed by the Bush administration to be ‘a philosophically leaning advisory group’ that favored discussion over developing a shared consensus.” Obama will appoint a new bioethics commission that “offers practical policy options.” (Bioethics Forum)