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Entries from blog.bioethics.net tagged with 'abortion'
Will The Down syndrome Children Disappear?
This is the incredibly provocative question asked by a Children's Hospital Boston researcher in a recent article published in Archives of Disease in Childhood. Given the new prenatal tests available to mothers, the author, Brian Skotko, asks, are we entering an era where slowly Down Syndrome babies will begin to... (read the rest)
It's Not August! But The August Issue of AJOB is Already Online at Bioethics.net
Now available at bioethics.net is the August issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. This month's issue contains articles ranging in topics from organ conscription and whether the US ought to have an opt-out system for organ donation and a number of thought experiments supporting that position by Delaney and... (read the rest)
Common Ground on Abortion? Not Likely.
President Obama isn't really asking for much. Really it's quite simple: both sides of the issue, conservatives and liberals, must give up a little bit to reach a "common ground" on a perennial issue to lay this "culture war" on abortion aside. Then both sides will have achieved a little... (read the rest)
Death in the Midwest
Never mind the obvious disconnect between being "pro-life" and trying to make your point by killing someone in cold blood. Let's put that to the side for the moment and focus on something else: Dr. Tiller, shot to death this past weekend, was one of only three physicians in the... (read the rest)
Don't Look Now....But Do.
Today, I am ashamed to say that I was born a Hoosier. The state of Indiana, as well as Texas, Nebraska, and 8 other states are attempting to pass laws that would require ultrasounds prior to performing abortions, says USA Today. Not for the good or health of the mother... (read the rest)
Quick, Easy Criticism of Conjoined Twins' Parents is Just That
Last week on Bioedge, Michael Cook brought to our attention a story from the UK involving Lisa and Mike Chamberlain, soon-to-be parents of conjoined twins, who have refused to consider terminating their pregnancy. The exact extent to which the twins are conjoined is still not known to their doctors, but... (read the rest)
Doctors Flee from Epidemic
In the latest issue of the American Journal of Bioethics, Malm et al. address the question of whether physicians have a duty to treat during a public health emergency or whether the duty to heal ends where the epidemic beings. However, if people began to have the RFID tags implanted... (read the rest)
NYT Mag on fetal pain
Yesterday's NYT Mag included a very interesting piece surveying research into if, when and how fetuses and babies experience pain: But [Kanwaljeet] Anand was not through with making observations. As NICU technology improved, the preterm infants he cared for grew younger and younger — with gestational ages of 24 weeks,... (read the rest)
Men and abortion
The LA Times recently reported on a "burgeoning movement" (statistics aren't cited) of activism among men who are "post abortive" -- that is, they contributed to a pregnancy that ended in abortion. As one Christian counselor tells LAT, "We had abortions." There seem to be two motivations behind this movement.... (read the rest)
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