This editorial can be found in the February 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization plunged the United States into a devastating public health crisis. While we have some evidence of the deep harms that abortion bans and restrictions have inflicted across the country, it […]
Over 200 million people globally have legal access to some form of aid in dying. In 2008, Washington became the second of eleven U.S. jurisdictions offering Medical Aid-in-Dying (“MAiD”). Among these jurisdictions, Washington, California, and New Mexico each require at least some healthcare entities to make their MAiD policies publicly available via their website. Most […]
The following editorial can be found in the January 2024 issue of American Journal of Bioethics. We were delighted to be asked by the editors of the American Journal of Bioethics to provide this editorial in response to Dr. Ariane Lewis’s paper “An Overview of Ethical Issues Raised by Medicolegal Challenges to Death by Neurologic Criteria in […]
Reproductive coercion is alive and well in the United States, violently robbing women of their ability to build families. Sterilization procedures, like hysterectomies and tubal ligations, permanently prevent pregnancies. When considering sterilization, patients are entitled to be fully informed and freely consent, rather than coerced or forced. Contraception without consent violates human rights. Physicians need to […]
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