Two recent bioethics announcements have added a few more nails to the coffin of humanity. While these new biomedical breakthroughs promise much about medical research,…
The danger always exists that if science can do something, it will do it. But simply because something can be done does not mean that…
Doubleday, 2008. In this important volume two philosophers with interests in bioethics and law make the case for the moral worth of the human embryo…
This week the Senate debates whether we allow embryo research and human cloning. The media often likes to argue that this is a battle between…
The push for human cloning continues around the world. Sure, most people say they do not want to see humans cloned, but they do want…
PublicAffairs, 2002. As in Australia and other Western nations, the United States has been involved in a lengthy and divisive debate concerning the new reproductive…
Important new developments in assisted reproductive technologies: Two recent media stories about IVF have made headlines around the world. Both stories raise important issues that…
Yes you read that right. And you are likely as incredulous as when you read the title of an article I penned five years ago:…
Advances in Assisted Reproductive Technologies have allowed us to create human embryos, but our moral abilities have not sufficiently advanced for us to recognise that…
In the somewhat Brave New World of modern medical, biomedical and technological advances in the area of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), a number of ethical…
So what do babies and peas have in common? Well, both can be frozen and later thawed. While it is convenient for us to eat…
The 1997 film Gattaca was a sci-fi thriller about a brave new world of genetic engineering and a two-tiered race. Most people were manufactured, created…
There are plenty of problems associated with IVF and related forms of assisted reproductive technologies. I have written about them often, and it seems we…
Surrogacy is on the rise around the world. This means of obtaining children is becoming more and more popular, with more and more desperate adults…
It was C. S. Lewis who once famously warned about those in white coats or white collars offering up Brave New World scenarios. It would…
The new Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) have allowed the creation of brave new families. Whereas earlier it took a man and a woman to produce…
I wish to speak to the issue of abortion and personhood, but I want to do it in a somewhat roundabout fashion. I want to…
When academics call for baby killing, you know we have reached the outer limits of the moral atmosphere. Our mighty intellects, who are supposed to…
It seems that learning from the mistakes of history is not one of the strong points of many intellectuals. Although we can be taught so…
One does not need to go very far to find examples of rather confused thinking about abortion. Indeed, both intellectual and moral confusion typically abound…