A new lottery in the U.K. offering contestants the chance to “win a baby” through expensive in-vitro fertilization treatments is causing a stir.
Papildomos nuorodos
Bioetikos naujienos
World Lottery to Win a Baby Sparks Controversy in Britain
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Dr. Kevorkian leaves mixed medical legacy
The death of pathologist Jack Kevorkian, MD, left many pondering the long-term influence of a highly controversial figure and what role he may have played in transforming the nation’s perception of dying.
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Appeals Court Reverses Decision Striking Down Stem Cell Funding
Last August, Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan-appointed trial judge in DC, suspended all federal funding for embryonic stem cell (ESC) research — a decision which limits such research in a way that even President George W. Bush found untenable. Today, a divided D.C. Circuit panel reversed Lamberth’s decision.
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Sharlotte Hydorn, 91, Sells Suicide Kits No Questions Asked
The package in the mail might have been anything: a simple white box decorated with a butterfly. But inside were the simple tools 29-year-old Nicholas Klonoski used to end his life.
Paskelbta Gyvenimo pabaigos etinės problemos
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Is it fair to fine fat people for not dieting?
Overweight welfare claimants in the US state of Arizona face paying $50 (£31) fines if they don’t follow a dietary regime laid down by their doctor. Is that fair?
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Killer’s quest: Allow organ donation after execution
An Oregon death row inmate is mounting an aggressive behind-bars campaign to donate his organs after he’s executed, in part to repay society for the gruesome murders of his wife and three young children.
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Should my hereditary disability stop me having a baby?
For Jono Lancaster, who has Treacher Collins syndrome, the decision about whether to have a baby or not is agonising.
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Measles-carrier had right to skip shot; we have right to sue
So let’s listen to two of the staunchest defenders of individual rights and liberty ever to take pen to paper — Mill and Holmes. If you infect my newborn or my grandmom because you put your liberty over your duty to help protect the weak and the vulnerable and chose not to get vaccinated then you are responsible for the harm you do and you ought to be liable for it.
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UK Doctors Consistently Oppose Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
A review of research carried out over 20 years suggests that UK doctors appear to consistently oppose euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS). These examined UK doctors’ attitudes to either assisted voluntary euthanasia (AVE), or PAS, or both. The majority of doctors opposed AVE in all of the studies but one (11 of the studies examined attitudes to AVE).
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‘Unethical’ anaesthetics research is retracted
The editors of 16 medical journals have retracted „unethical“ studies by an influential German anaesthetist.
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