April 1, 2025
(Michigan Advance) – Starting Tuesday it will no longer be a crime to enter into a surrogacy contract in Michigan. The Michigan Family Protection Act will go into effect April 1, officially repealing a ban that made Michigan the only … Read More
April 1, 2025
(Wired) – The academic and author discusses what to expect from the singularity, the need for AI self-correcting mechanisms, and what hope there is for superintelligence safeguarding democracy. Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens became an international … Read More
March 31, 2025
(USA Today) – Monday marks 20 years since the death of Terri Schiavo, whose landmark case became the symbol of the “right to die” movement, generated political controversy and sparked public outcry as her husband and family members took their … Read More
March 31, 2025
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (vol. 21, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 28, 2025
(ProPublica) – Texas Republicans have proposed changes to the state’s strict abortion ban they say would make clear that doctors can terminate pregnancies for serious medical risks without having to wait until a patient’s condition becomes life-threatening. The legislation comes … Read More
March 25, 2025
(New York Times) – On June 24, 2022, the same day the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, I received a call from the fertility clinic where I’d been undergoing in vitro fertilization, informing … Read More
March 24, 2025
(Daily Mail) – MPs will try to legislate to force a review into palliative care within a year, after Labour was accused of kicking the can down the road. Despite assurances to address the issue alongside the Assisted Dying Bill, … Read More
March 18, 2025
(The Times) – More than 250 GPs signed a letter saying their views had been misrepresented after the Royal College of GPs softened its stance on assisted dying Doctors have accused the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) of “grossly misrepresenting” … Read More
March 18, 2025
(WTOP News) – A northern Virginia judge determined embryos are not property that can be divided up, rejecting a previous analysis by the court saying such fertilized eggs could be considered divisible “goods or chattel” based on 19th-century slave law. … Read More
March 18, 2025
(New York Times) – Abortion bans successfully prevented some women from getting abortions in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a detailed new study of birth data from 2023. The effects were … Read More
March 12, 2025
(Undark) – In a provocative new book, political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee call for a pandemic reckoning. In their forthcoming book, “In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us,” they argue that many pandemic-era policies were not grounded … Read More
March 12, 2025
(The Guardian) – At least a dozen US states – from traditionally conservative Oklahoma to liberal-leaning New York – are rushing to pass laws outlawing commonly used dyes and other chemical additives in foods, citing a need to protect public … Read More
March 12, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 5, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 11, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Pueblo, Colo., had high hopes for a legal-marijuana boom; financial troubles now plague the industry In Pueblo and elsewhere, though, market dynamics have crippled the legal-cannabis industry. Even after legalization, illicit growers and sellers thrived in … Read More
March 11, 2025
(The Hill) – The Supreme Court granted a Colorado therapist’s request to review her challenge to a state law banning mental health care providers from engaging minors in conversion therapy, a discredited practice that attempts to change a person’s sexual … Read More
March 10, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 6, 2025
(Associated Press) – Utah on Wednesday became the first state to pass legislation requiring app stores to verify users’ ages and get parental consent for minors to download apps to their devices. The bill headed to the desk of Gov. … Read More
March 6, 2025
(USA Today) – As the need for out-of-state care rapidly increases, abortion clinics and funds caution that even in protective states, the infrastructure is under strain. With fewer healthcare centers to turn to, people have to travel further for care, … Read More
March 6, 2025
(Axios) – The mRNA vaccines that helped to end the COVID pandemic — and stoked a considerable amount of vaccine skepticism and misinformation — are now a target of legislators in some conservative-led states. Why it matters: The efforts risk … Read More
March 6, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 6, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
February 26, 2025
(The Guardian) – GenBioPro seeks to defend access to mifepristone in suit brought by attorneys general of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas The manufacturer of the generic version of a major abortion pill has asked to join a federal lawsuit over … Read More
February 25, 2025
(BBC) – A law to give terminally ill adults on the Isle of Man the right to end their own lives is entering its final stages, making it potentially the first jurisdiction in the British Isles to legalise assisted dying. … Read More
February 24, 2025
(New York Times) – The Food and Drug Administration has reinstated dozens of specialized employees involved in food safety, review of medical devices and other areas who were laid off last week, according to more than a dozen workers who … Read More
February 24, 2025
(Maclean’s) – The ethics are muddy, the country is divided and the world is watching Canada’s next move. Inside the crusade for psychiatric MAID. Brosseau does not want her future to hinge on disinformation campaigns, timid politicians and slowly evolving … Read More
February 24, 2025
(WGNTV) – State legislators on Friday held the first hearing on a bill that would legalize access to medical aid in dying for terminally ill adults in Illinois, a political conversation that’s also taking place in several other states. Lawmakers … Read More
