April 23, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – Planned Parenthood is finally beginning to distance itself from the eugenics legacy of founder Margaret Sanger. But the belated acknowledgment is misleading at best. In an April 17 op-ed, Alexis McGill Johnson, the organization’s president, suggests … Read More
April 23, 2021
(The Conversation) – That’s ethically controversial, because these creatures could possess an ambiguous moral status: somewhere between that of humans, which we don’t tend to experiment upon, and animals, which we do. How we end up treating part-human chimeras will … Read More
April 22, 2021
(STAT News) – That said, I don’t agree with the Gaffney-Devine-Sharpe approach. I am a philosopher and bioethicist whose research has long been focused on the line that distinguishes biomedical conditions from psychosomatic ones. As someone who investigates philosophical confusion, … Read More
April 20, 2021
(The Conversation) – With the news that all U.S. adults are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, the holy grail of infectious disease mitigation – herd immunity – feels tantalizingly close. If enough people take the vaccine, likely at … Read More
April 19, 2021
(STAT News) – Nursing homes and hospice care are supposed to provide safe refuges for older people and those near the ends of their lives. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they have been just the opposite. Many nursing homes and hospice … Read More
April 19, 2021
(The Conversation) – The recent announcement that scientists have made human-monkey embryos and cultured them in the lab for two weeks made international headlines. The technology to make animals that contain cells from other species has been available for decades … Read More
April 14, 2021
(The Conversation) – The world has a COVID-19 vaccine access problem: Almost half of all doses administered so far have been in Europe and North America, while many poorer countries have vaccinated less than than 1% of their populations. With … Read More
April 12, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – The idea of a “vaccine passport,” which would let people prove they’re inoculated against Covid, has been swept up in a political debate over personal liberty. But this misunderstands how these apps are likely to be … Read More
April 8, 2021
(Project Syndicate) – The right to assistance in dying continues to gain ground. Last month, the Spanish parliament passed legislation, expected to come into effect in June, permitting doctors to assist adult patients to die if they have a “serious … Read More
April 5, 2021
(STAT News) – Covid-19 vaccines offer a way out of the global crisis that has upended — and cut short — lives for more than a year. Three vaccines have now received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the FDA. One … Read More
