Can new techniques resolve stem cell impasse?
The political battles over stem cell research continue to shift as new techniques are proposed as ways to circumvent ethical and religious questions. UPDATED NOV. 21, 2007 For more sources, see...
View ArticleHospital ethics boards sharpen decision-making
Hospital ethics boards are the local face of struggle for moral decision-making amid medical change. In hospitals large and small, ethics committees weigh grave questions about medical treatment. Most...
View Article‘Conscience clause’ laws weigh moral values
It’s a classic confrontation of values. A woman walks into a drugstore to fill a prescription – maybe an unmarried student who wants birth control, maybe a woman who requests emergency contraception to...
View ArticleA guide to covering abortion issues
The national debate over abortion is boiling again with changes to the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court and two pivotal abortion cases on its docket this fall. At the same time, state legislatures...
View ArticleBeyond ‘Octomom’: Emerging issues in assisted reproduction
The ethics of fertility treatments are struggling to keep up with rapid-fire advances in biotechnology. The case of Nadya Suleman, the “Octomom” who gave birth to octuplets in January 2009 through...
View ArticleThe fate of frozen embryos sparks intense debate
The popularity of in-vitro fertilization and other procedures that require the creation of multiple embryos has resulted in an excess of frozen embryos, as many as 500,000. What to do with them, and...
View ArticleBioethics: A guide to experts and resources
Americans are confronting challenges in bioethics every day and in every venue, from hospital rooms and research labs to Congress and the Supreme Court. Developments in genetics, debates over the...
View ArticleDr. Jack Kevorkian dies, and the end-of-life debate is revived
The death of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a former pathologist who helped dozens of terminally ill people die with a suicide machine, has renewed a national debate on end-of-life issues that never went away...
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