Tuesday, February 28, 2006

An Economist Looks at the Fertility Industry

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Debora Spar, a professor of business administration and an associate dean at the Harvard business school, has recently published Baby Busine...
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Global governance needed for species-changing and species-endangering procedures

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A summary of Governing Biotechnology by George Annas Professor George Annas of Boston University believes that the test for the 21st century...
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Got Calcium?

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The Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a 15-year federally funded study involving more than 36,000 women ages 50 to 79, found that taking ...

Got Health Care?: Privatization of Canada's health care

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aCanada's publicly financed health insurance system — frequently described as the third rail of its political system and a core value of...
Monday, February 27, 2006

States' Tug of War on Plan B

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Nearly every state is or soon will be wrestling with legislation that would expand or restrict access of the "morning-after" pill....

Bad to the Bone: Body Snatchers

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The owner of a biomedical supply house and three others were charged with selling body parts for use in transplants in a scheme a district a...

Designer Microbes, the Human Genome Project and Alternative Fuels

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J. Craig Venter, the man who is known for mapping the human genome, is proposing to create a new form of life that can help create alternati...
Friday, February 24, 2006

Separating Fact From Spin in the Abortion debate

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NPR does a excellent job of explaining the facts behind late-term or 'partial birth' abortion, explaining why it is so controversial...
Thursday, February 23, 2006

South Dakota: Gunning for Roe

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South Dakota lawmakers passed the most restrictive ban on abortion, in the hopes of getting Roe vs. Wade overturned. The measure, which pas...

Ethical Entertainment

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“ Oscar has developed a social conscience this year, with weighty real-life themes ranging from ethics in big business and media to racial t...

Sex as entitlement, sex as power?

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“ A man…stabbed his wife in the neck because she would not have sex with him and then proceeded to have sex with the bloodied woman …” In a ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Abortion and US Supreme Court again

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The US Supreme Court Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether a 2003 federal ban on the procedure that critics call "partial bi...
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Promote stem cell research ... donate your baby's umbilical cord

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For those who object to the use of leftover IVF embryos and therapeutic cloning for embryonic stem cell research, there is another alternati...
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Ethical Concerns Halts Death Penalty Execution

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Prison officials in California postponed indefinitely the execution of a condemned killer , saying they could not comply with a judge’s orde...
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Women on Board(s)

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Chris MacDonald, author of partner blog, Business Ethics, has commented on and pointed out some interesting studies on women and corporate b...
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

WBP Announces East Coast Advisory Board

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SEATTLE – The Women’s Bioethics Project (WBP) today announced that it has established an East Coast Advisory Board, which has attrac...
Monday, February 20, 2006

Denmark in the News for Something Else

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Denmark is the only country in the world with an established National ART reporting system that counts all ART treatments, including in vit...

More on Marriage and Financial (Dis)Incentives...

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And in a similar vein to our previous post, Slate has an interesting article that provides an argument that polygamy can benefit women econo...

The Show-Me-The-Money Approach to Prostitution and Marriage

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Wife or whore? It's as simple as that according to an economic analysis in Forbes online. : Two well-respected economists created a mino...
Thursday, February 16, 2006

Gazzaniga on Cloning

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Michael Gazzaniga, author of The Ethical Brain , and member of the President's Commission on Bioethics, make an argument for the therap...
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