December 2, 2024
(Axios) – Legally induced abortions decreased in 2022, the year that Roe v. Wade was overturned, the CDC said in its latest annual report. Why it matters: Abortions had ticked upward slightly between 2019 and 2021 after years of declines … Read More
November 27, 2024
(BBC) – For the first time in almost a decade MPs are going to vote on giving terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to have an assisted death. While it’s something that remains illegal in most countries, … Read More
November 25, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Actress Liz Carr warns that no society can permit assisted suicide without endangering the disabled. When an able-bodied person says something like that about himself, it’s a tragedy, and society seeks to prevent suicide. Plaques offering … Read More
November 25, 2024
(ProPublica) – The 35-year-old’s death was preventable, according to more than a dozen doctors who reviewed a detailed summary of her case for ProPublica. Some said it raises serious questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to diverge from … Read More
November 25, 2024
Ethics, Medicine, and Public Health (vol. 32, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 22, 2024
(Associated Press) – Four cities, spanning Portland suburbs and rural and coastal towns, added new voter-approved prohibitions for the federally illegal compound in the Nov. 5 election. A dozen other communities that approved two-year moratoriums in 2022, when a majority … Read More
November 19, 2024
(National Academies) – Over the past several decades, more than half of all U.S. states have legalized cannabis for adult and/or medical use, but it remains illegal at the federal level. The public health consequences of cannabis policy changes have … Read More
November 18, 2024
(Medscape) – The prevalence of and number of deaths from alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) are growing among people age 70 and older in the United States, according to the results of a new study. Even … Read More
November 18, 2024
(The Telegraph via MSN) – The assisted dying bill risks opening the door to “non-voluntary euthanasia”, the former chief coroner has warned. Ahead of a free vote on assisted dying at the end of the month, Thomas Teague KC, who … Read More
November 18, 2024
Hastings Center Report (vol. 54, Issue 5, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 12, 2024
(ProPublica) – “If you don’t look, you’re not going to find,” said Lauri McGivern, medicolegal death investigator coordinator in Vermont’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, chair of the National Association of Medical Examiners’ medicolegal death investigation committee and past … Read More
November 12, 2024
(Daily Mail) – Pressuring someone to end their lives will be a crime punishable by up to 14 years’ imprisonment under the proposed legalisation of assisted suicide, it last night emerged. Details of the long-awaited Terminally Ill Adults (End of … Read More
November 12, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – Women are seeking out abortion medication in higher-than-usual numbers ahead of a Donald Trump presidency that they fear could severely curtail access to reproductive care. Aid Access, one of the largest suppliers of abortion pills, … Read More
November 12, 2024
(The New Atlantis) – Ontario’s euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations — and not referred a single case to law enforcement, say leaked documents. For years, there have been clear signals that euthanasia providers in Canada … Read More
November 11, 2024
(Associated Press) – A conservative prosecutor’s attorney struggled Monday to persuade the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reactivate the state’s 175-year-old abortion ban, drawing a tongue-lashing from two of the court’s liberal justices during oral arguments. (Read More)
November 7, 2024
(BBC) – Australia’s government says it will introduce “world-leading” legislation to ban children under 16 from social media. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the proposed laws, to be tabled in parliament next week, were aimed at mitigating the “harm” social … Read More
November 6, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Voters backed abortion rights in seven of the 10 states where the issue appeared on ballots Tuesday — at first glance, seemingly reshaping the nation’s patchwork of abortion rules. Colorado, Maryland, Montana, and New York — … Read More
November 4, 2024
(Washington Times) – Massachusetts could become the third U.S. state to decriminalize psilocybin, the psychedelic drug found in mushrooms, if enough state voters mark “yes” on their ballot’s Question 4. Many drug policy researchers say legalization could be dangerous because … Read More
November 4, 2024
Medico-Legal Journal (vol. 92, no. 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 1, 2024
(The Guardian) – Politicians say use of common yet toxic paraquat can’t be justified due to apparent health and environment risks More than 50 US lawmakers are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to join dozens of other countries … Read More
November 1, 2024
(Associated Press) – Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that expands the state’s clash … Read More
November 1, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 15, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 30, 2024
The Linacre Quarterly (vol. 91, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 25, 2024
(Associated Press) – Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are cracking down on a troubling spread of child sexual abuse imagery created through artificial intelligence technology — from manipulated photos of real children to graphic depictions of computer-generated kids. Justice … Read More
October 22, 2024
(Axios) – Infant death rates were higher than expected for several months after the Supreme Court struck down the federal right to abortion, with most of the increase coming from infants with birth defects, researchers reported on Monday in JAMA … Read More
