Tag: abortion
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May 15, 2013
Emergent Dualism and the Sanctity of Human Life
My wife and I spent May 10-11 at the annual conference of Biola’s Center for Christian Thought (CCT), where the theme for 2012-2013 has been “Neuroscience and the Soul.” The plenary talks are not all on the web, yet, although some are on Facebo...February 11, 2013
Ways for Republicans Not To Attract Women's Votes
Require a transvaginal ultrasound before an abortion! Limit abortion availability by giving legal rights to fetuses and requiring abortionists to have local hospital admitting privileges that they don't use! Oppose gun control that women overwhelmingly...January 28, 2013
Medical Causes of the Sexual Revolution
Prof. Andrew Francis, an economist at Emory, is claiming that penicillin, rather than The (Birth Control) Pill, was the drug that gave us the sexual revolution of the 1960s. The idea is that the post-war availability of penicillin reduced the cost (to ...January 24, 2012
Caplan: Say No to Sterilization, Forced Abortion
Art Caplan discusses a troubling case regarding a 32-year-old pregnant woman known as “Mary Moe” who is pregnant for the third time and who suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.…
December 15, 2010
AJOB's Last Issue of 2010 is Now Online!
Just in time for the holiday season (when most of our waistlines are expanding), the pages of AJOB this month we are discussing the ethical issues of shrinking our waistlines using bariatric surgery.…
September 16, 2009
Will The Down syndrome Children Disappear?
This is the incredibly provocative question asked by a Children’s Hospital Boston researcher in a recent article published in Archives of Disease in Childhood.…
July 19, 2009
It's Not August! But The August Issue of AJOB is Already Online at Bioethics.net
Now available at bioethics.net is the August issue of The American Journal of Bioethics.
This month’s issue contains articles ranging in topics from organ conscription and whether the US ought to have an opt-out system for organ donation and a number of thought experiments supporting that position by Delaney and Hershenov.…
July 1, 2009
Common Ground on Abortion? Not Likely.
President Obama isn’t really asking for much. Really it’s quite simple: both sides of the issue, conservatives and liberals, must give up a little bit to reach a “common ground” on a perennial issue to lay this “culture war” on abortion aside.…
June 2, 2009
Death in the Midwest
Never mind the obvious disconnect between being “pro-life” and trying to make your point by killing someone in cold blood. Let’s put that to the side for the moment and focus on something else: Dr.…
February 9, 2009
Don't Look Now....But Do.
Today, I am ashamed to say that I was born a Hoosier. The state of Indiana, as well as Texas, Nebraska, and 8 other states are attempting to pass laws that would require ultrasounds prior to performing abortions, says USA Today.…
News (11)
March 15, 2013 5:02 pm
Bill in North Dakota Bans Abortion After Heartbeat Is Found
Little more than a week after Arkansas adopted the country’s most stringent abortion limits, banning the procedure at 12 weeks of pregnancy, the North Dakota Legislature on Friday passed a more restrictive bill that would ban most abortions as early as 6 weeks into pregnancy.
January 16, 2013 2:11 pm
As "Roe v. Wade" turns 40, most oppose reversing abortion ruling (Yahoo News)
Most Americans remain opposed to overturning the controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which 40 years ago legalized abortion at least in the first three months of pregnancy, according to a poll released Wednesday.
December 11, 2012 2:42 pm
North Carolina barred from issuing "Choose Life" license plates (Yahoo)
A federal judge has permanently blocked North Carolina from issuing an anti-abortion specialty license plate, ruling that offering plates with a “Choose Life” slogan without an alternative supporting abortion rights is unconstitutional.
November 15, 2012 6:41 pm
Ireland to Clarify Abortion Rules After Woman's Death (Reuters)
Ireland’s government pledged on Thursday to clarify its abortion laws after an Indian woman who was refused a termination died from blood poisoning in an Irish hospital. Activists say the refusal by doctors to terminate the pregnancy earlier may have contributed to her death.
August 2, 2012 10:01 am
The flawed basis behind fetal-pain abortion laws (Washington Post)
On Thursday, Arizona’s new abortion law will take effect, outlawing the procedure after 20 weeks of pregnancy — a much earlier threshold than in any other law that has been upheld in court. Like-minded laws have been enacted in Nebraska, Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Georgia and Louisiana, and a bill similarly limiting abortion in the District drew support Tuesday from a majority of the U.S. House, but not from enough members to pass.
June 7, 2012 12:37 pm
Doctors caught in the abortion wars (Salon)
“Civil disobedience,” is what they called for. Two prominent doctors, Marcia Angell and Michael Greene — both professors at Harvard Medical School; Angell the former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine – were saying doctors should disobey some of the most common abortion restrictions. “They should make it clear that they will not perform procedures, such as ultrasound examinations, unless they are medically indicated and desired by their patients,” Angell and Greene wrote in an Op-Ed in USA Today on May 15. “And they should refuse to provide inaccurate information about the consequences of abortion, or to follow any other prepared script in counseling their patients, particularly when it involves treating women like children.”
June 1, 2012 9:05 am
House Rejects Bill to Ban Sex-Selective Abortions (New York Times)
The House on Thursday rejected a measure that sought to impose fines and prison terms on doctors who perform abortions on women who are trying to select the gender of their offspring — a practice known as sex-selective abortion. The legislation, which required two-thirds support to win passage under the fast-track procedure used to bring it to the floor, fell short on a vote of 246 to 168. Republicans did not anticipate that the legislation would pass, but saw it as an opportunity to force Democrats to vote on an issue with appeal among conservatives.
May 21, 2012 4:50 pm
Column: Where are the doctors? (USA Today)
Since the choice to terminate an unwanted pregnancy was established by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 inRoe v. Wade, almost one in three women have had abortions. The legality of contraception was established even earlier, in 1965, in Griswold v. Connecticut, and tens of millions of women use some form of artificial contraception. But there is now an unprecedented and sweeping legal assault on women’s reproductive rights. New legislation is being introduced, and sometimes passed, in state after state that would roll back access to abortion and contraception, mainly by intruding on the relationship between doctor and patient.
May 2, 2012 12:21 pm
Ethics: Withhold Genetic Test Results if Mother Will Abort? (Medscape)
Can a doctor lie about the results of a genetic test if he or she thinks that they might lead to an abortion? The State of Arizona is considering a law that might make it possible to make the answer to that question “yes.” They are passing a law that says they are not going to accept lawsuits for wrongful births. Wrongful birth lawsuits basically say that if a doctor doesn’t offer a test, doesn’t give the results of a test, or gives them inaccurately, the doctor still can’t be sued for making that kind of decision.
March 26, 2012 1:34 pm
About those Ultrasounds: What if Doctors just say no? (Salon)
I’ve been wondering–haven’t you?–why primary care physicians, and especially OB/GYNs, aren’t speaking out about the current creepy Rightward trend toward using ultrasounds as punishment against women who dare to sign up for an abortion. Turns out some of them are. They’re angry, they’re anguished, they’re dumbstruck. (Join the club.) And they’re speaking out anonymously–sadly–because we live in a country where medical doctors can no longer talk freely about abortion, a legal medical procedure, without fear of retribution.