http://www.bioethics.net/rss/repromed.xml bioethics news everyday from bioethics.net/American Journal of Bioethics Copyright 2005 bioethics.net Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:23:43 EST http://www.bioethics.net/ http://www.bioethics.net/images/logo_frontpage_wht.gif 60 200 webmaster@bioethics.net newsupdate@bioethics.net en-us http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8329 Are Catholic bishops out of touch with American catholics or is it the other way around? Debate over mandated contraception coverage raises the issue. #bioethics Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:23:43 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8328 If women wind up pregnant from faulty pill packets, product liability lawsuits or "wrongful pregnancy" cases — reminiscent of medical malpractice — could be filed. #bioethics Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:22:00 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8303 Margaret Somerville argues that we should re-focus the abortion debate. #bioethics Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:00:52 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8296 Wellcome Trust, the United Kingdom's largest biomedical research charity, today announced more than £4 million in support for a pioneering, and potentially controversial, IVF treatment that could prevent some forms of muscular dystrophy and other diseases caused by defective mitochondria. #bioethics Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:41:01 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8277 Sex selection debate crosses the border into Canada. #bioethics Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:40:40 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8262 A third of Americans find stem cell research morally offensive -- but how many have unwittingly contributed to it by giving up eggs? #bioethics Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:51:18 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8255 Trent Arsenault is the Barry Bonds of sperm. The 36-year-old Fremont man boasts that he has sired 14 babies - with four more in the oven - via a free sperm-donation service that he promotes on the Internet. Arsenault has been so successful that, like Bonds, he has attracted the scrutiny of the federal government. #bioethics Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:03:10 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8253 A handful of researchers are exploring whether uterine transplants might be able to help women who lack a womb to bear children. Is it ethical? Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:59:38 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8239 The Department of Health and Human Services has taken the rare step of overruling the Food and Drug Administration and its science advisors and will not allow the pill to be sold over the counter in drugstores unless a woman can prove she is older than 17. #bioethics Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:01:20 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8203 Now that corporations are people, perhaps embryos are as well? Mississippi has its thoughts on the matter. #bioethics Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:05:55 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8199 From 2012, compensation payments will rise to £750 per cycle for egg donors and £35 per clinic visit for sperm donors. #bioethics Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:38:59 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8196 Three doctors who perform abortions in Kansas will challenge new regulations for their clinics even after the rules were revised to placate the physicians, their attorneys said Thursday, arguing that the rules still impose unreasonable and "irrational" requirements. #bioethics Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:56:13 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8194 When it comes to in vitro fertilization, the message of a new study is simple: Less is more. #bioethics Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:57:54 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8184 Questions are raised about the ethics of choosing the sex of one's baby. #bioethics Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:35:04 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8160 As compared to France and Britain, there are no laws in Canada and US pertaining to limiting the number of children that can be fathered by a single donor. #bioethics Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:22:45 EDT