September 25, 2024
A New Edition of Bioethics Is Now Available
Bioethics (vol. 38, no. 8, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
Public Policy
September 23, 2024
A Dramatic Rise in Pregnant Women Dying in Texas after Abortion Ban
(NBC News) – Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period. The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during … Read More
September 20, 2024
Carney says he wasn’t ‘comfortable’ approving end-of-life options bill; vetoes legislation
(Delaware Online) – Silverio died on Jan. 7, 2018. Block died two months later, on March 3, 2018. Knothe died this week, on Sept. 16, 2024. None of them lived long enough to have those options in Delaware. And Gov. … Read More
September 19, 2024
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 9, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 18, 2024
The Missing Girls: How China’s One-Child Policy Tore Families Apart
(Wall Street Journal) – A now-ended adoption program created the perception that Chinese girls weren’t valued. One adoptee, once hidden in a grocery bag, found there was more to her own story. In “Ricki’s Promise,” a 2014 documentary by Changfu … Read More
September 18, 2024
There Are More than 120 AI Bills in Congress Right Now
(MIT Technology Review) – US policymakers have an ‘everything everywhere all at once’ approach to regulating artificial intelligence, with bills that are as varied as the definitions of AI itself. More than 120 bills related to regulating artificial intelligence are … Read More
September 16, 2024
Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.
(ProPublica) – At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories. In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from … Read More
September 12, 2024
‘That’s Something That You Won’t Recover from as a Doctor’
(The Atlantic) – In the two-plus years since Roe was overturned, a handful of studies have cataloged the moral distress of doctors across the country. In one, 96 percent of providers who care for pregnant women in states with restrictive … Read More
September 10, 2024
Dobbs Has Fundamentally Changed Obstetric Care, Study Finds
(MedPage Today) – Report details real examples of how abortion bans have led to poor medical care The research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), based at the University of California San Francisco, launched its Care Post-Roe study … Read More
September 3, 2024
Welcome to Canada, the Doctor Will Kill You Now
(Wall Street Journal) – Assisted suicide was sold as compassionate. In practice it has turned out to be monstrous. The new law dropped safeguards, such as the minimum 10-day assessment period between request and provision. It also proposed mental illness … Read More
September 3, 2024
Texas Abortion Ban 3 Years On: Forcing Patients Out of State, Fueling 2024 Debate
(Axios) – Tens of thousands of Texans have traveled out of state for abortions since the state’s ban took effect — more than from any other state, due to Texas’ large population and the restrictiveness of the law. Why it … Read More
September 2, 2024
A New Edition of Hastings Center Report Is Now Available
Hastings Center Report (vol. 54, Issue 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 30, 2024
A New Edition of Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Is Now Available
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (vol. 27, no. 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 29, 2024
Death Threats, Legal Risk and Backlogs Weigh on Clinicians Treating Trans Minors
(NBC News) – Twenty-six states now have restrictions on transgender health care for minors, according to the LGBTQ think tank Movement Advancement Project. The laws have left those still able to provide this type of care, like Goepferd, struggling to … Read More
August 29, 2024
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 26, 2024
There’s a Severe Kidney Shortage. Should Donors Be Compensated?
(NPR) – More than 90,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for a kidney transplant. But an ongoing kidney shortage means a thousand people a month are removed from the waitlist, either because they die while waiting for a kidney … Read More
August 22, 2024
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 2, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 20, 2024
Why Americans Are Traveling to Vermont and Oregon to Die
(CBS News) – At least 26 people have traveled to Vermont to die, representing nearly 25% of the reported assisted deaths in the state from May 2023 through this June, according to the Vermont Department of Health. In Oregon, 23 … Read More
August 16, 2024
California Weakens Bill to Prevent AI Disaster Before Final Vote, Taking Advice from Anthropic
(Tech Crunch) – California’s bill to prevent AI disasters, SB 1047, has faced significant opposition from many parties in Silicon Valley. Today, California lawmakers bent slightly to that pressure, adding in several amendments suggested by AI firm Anthropic and other … Read More
August 16, 2024
Ruling: Fetus Can Be Referred to as ‘Unborn Human Being’ in Arizona Abortion Measure Voter Pamphlet
(Associated Press) – An informational pamphlet for Arizona voters, who will decide in the fall whether to guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion, can refer to an embryo or fetus as an “unborn human being,” the state’s highest court … Read More
August 13, 2024
Hospitals’ New Push: Treating Patients in Their Homes
(Wall Street Journal) – Institutions say it is safe and opens hospital beds, but policymakers fear it’s too pricey and lacks strict standards Around the country, more than 300 hospitals are deploying or preparing to dispatch paramedics, nurse practitioners and … Read More
August 12, 2024
I.V.F. Threats in Alabama Drive Clinics to Ship Out Embryos
(New York Times) – An emerging movement against in vitro fertilization is driving some doctors and patients in red states to move or destroy frozen embryos. The embryo migration is most striking in Alabama, where the State Supreme Court ruled … Read More
August 12, 2024
States Are Writing Their Own Rules for AI in Health Care
(Axios) – In the absence of federal guardrails on artificial intelligence in health care, state governments are figuring out their own rules of the road. Why it matters: Artificial intelligence is health care’s biggest wild card. But it’s drawing hundreds … Read More
August 7, 2024
US Abortion Numbers Have Risen Slightly Since Roe Was Overturned, Study Finds
(Associated Press) – The number of women getting abortions in the U.S. actually went up in the first three months of 2024 compared with before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, a report released Wednesday found, reflecting the lengths … Read More
August 5, 2024
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Is Becoming One of the Most Powerful People on Earth. We Should Be Very Afraid
(The Guardian) – Sam Altman’s ChatGPT promises to transform the global economy. But it also poses an enormous threat. Here, a scientist who appeared with Altman before the US Senate on AI safety flags up the danger in AI – … Read More
