Bioethics

The Ultimate Prescription: Make Us Decide How We Want To Die

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Ethics, Senior Citizens, Assisted Suicide, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medicare, Bioethics, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

While all Americans should have a right to decide how they want their lives to end, it does not follow that they should be able to avoid confronting such a choice.

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Next: Assisted Suicide for Healthy People

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Ethics, Law, Politics, Switzerland, Human Rights, Assisted Suicide, Health, Bioethics, Health Care, Medicine, Privacy, Canada, Politics News

If Betty Coumbias had only six months left to live and expressed a desire to die, most assisted-suicide advocates would support her cause. Why should she have any less control over her life because she is in good health?

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Motherhood: Is It Ever Too Late?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Medical Ethics, Women's Rights, Women, Late Motherhood, Women's Issues, Personal Health, Motherhood, Parenting, Ivf, Women's Health, Health, Women and Politics, Living, Bioethics, Medicine, Health Care, Healthy Living News

Births to women in their late fifties and early sixties are no longer international news. Whether they are empowering or irresponsible has been a matter of ongoing debate.

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A "Supreme Court" for Bioethics?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Medical Ethics, Abortion, Supreme Court, Politics, Philosophy, Health, Ethics, Obama Administration, Technology, Euthanasia, Sperm, Bioethics, Health Care, Politics News

The recent decision by President Obama to disband his predecessor's Council on Bioethics raises important questions regarding the role of professional bioethicists in contemporary society.

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The Coming Ethical Crisis: Oxygen Rationing

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Ethics, Pandemic Preparedness, Natural Disasters, Health Care Rationing, Triage, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Health Care Reform, Euthanasia, Bioethics, Health Care, Politics News

One of the questions that will face our society when a future pandemic proves more deadly is how our public health authorities ought to allocate ventilators.

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Should We Really Fear Reproductive Human Cloning?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Ethics, Stem Cell Research, Politics, Organ Transplant, Obama Stem Cell Research, Reproductive Rights, Raelians, Embryonic Stem Cells, Bioethics, Cloning, Stem Cell Cloning, Politics News

The president has not explained precisely why he opposes reproductive cloning. Is his opposition solely based upon the health risks of cloning techniques, or on moral grounds?

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Hey Mr. Bioethicist, Scientists are Not Amoral

Michael Eisen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Morality, Stem Cell Research, Bioethics, Stem Cells, Medical Ethics, Science Scientists, Sceince Ethics, Ethics, Politics News

This conflation of science and scientists is offensive and ignorant. In my experience, no one has thought about the moral side of scientific issues more deeply than scientists.

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Watch Obama's Fine Print on Stem Cells

Jeremy Manier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Nih, Bioethics, Barack Obama, Obama Stem Cell Research, Health, Ips Cells, Obama Stem Cell Ban, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Chicago News

Now the hard part begins: implementing a stem-cell policy that's meaningful, has full ethical protections and unlocks the scientific talent that's been held back the last eight years.

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Praise the Lord for Fred Phelps and Nadya Suleman

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Bibiolatry, Homophobia, Nadya Suleman, Bioethics, Fred Phelps, Barack Obama, Evangelicals, Kansas, Healthy Living News

Suleman's biomedical exploits also have rippled across the country. She hit a nerve we didn't know we had and raised powerful questions about right and wrong.

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Top Ten Suggested Names for the Nadya Suleman Babies A to H (That's 80 Names Folks!)

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Angela Suleman, In Vitro Fertilization, Reproductive Rights, Science, Reproductive Health, California Octuplets, Nadya Suleman, Fertility, Pro-Life, Babies, Bioethics, Medicine, Suleman Octuplets, Names of the Octuplets, Octuplet Names, Octuplet Baby Names, Nadya Suleman Babies, Suleman Babies, Comedy News

1. Addendum 2. Another 3. Accident 4. Anomaly 5. Annoying 6. Afterbirth 7. ADHD 8. Appendage 9. Analogue 10. AdvertisingSpace

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Shut That Vagina Down: The Nadya Suleman Misconception(s)

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011

I mean its ridiculous. A baby momma 14 times over should not be living with her parents in a modest 3-bedroom house in Bellflower, California.

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The Morality of Eight Babies or, Sometimes, Even One

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Abortion, Morality, Bioethics, Ethics, Octuplets, Single Mothers, Mothering, Giving Birth, Single Motherhood, California Octuplets, Parenting, Octuplets Born in California, Childbirth, Parenthood, Healthy Living News

Abortion opponents have no trouble saying that killing blastocysts is wrong. They don't say blastocysts. They say people. And then they attribute souls and personhood to fertilized eggs.

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