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What Is a ‘Serious Genetic Condition’?

Vardit Ravitsky, Ph.D., President and CEO of the Hastings Center, will deliver the keynote address, “What Is a ‘Serious Genetic Condition’?,” at the eighth annual reproductive ethics conference at the...
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The Drama of Medical Ethics: A New Play

“The Doctor,” a new play by Robert Icke, powerfully dramatizes many controversial issues of medical ethics, along with identity politics.
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Keep Politics Out of State Medical Policy

State medical boards and other government-appointed health officials have an obligation to follow evidence-based medicine to frame their opinions and regulations. However, there is disturbing evidence that, in some cases, political ideology is guiding health policy.
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Should Pro-Choice Advocates Compromise on Abortion?

I'd be happy to go along with a ban on elective abortion after 15 weeks if, but only if, certain conditions accompanied it.
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The Great Leap Backward

The government and many residents of the state of Texas like to brag about their love of personal freedom and individual choice. That is why it is so strange and morally repugnant that the state has turned for guidance on how to manage reproductive decisions to the Chinese Communist Party of the Mao Zedong era.
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With Legal Challenges to Abortion, Whither Prenatal Diagnosis?

Changes in abortion law threaten to undermine a major benefit of prenatal diagnosis, namely the ability of pregnant women to choose whether or not to continue their pregnancies upon learning of a serious fetal condition.
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Using the Pandemic as an Excuse to Limit Abortion

Several states, including Ohio, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma, declared abortion a nonessential service at some point during the pandemic, meaning that it was effectively banned until the crisis passed. Supporters of the policies maintain that abortion is an elective procedure whose medical resources are better off used in the fight against the pandemic. But abortion opponents have been taking advantage of the current circumstances to limit abortion access.
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England’s Abortion Law Catches Up

Last month, England announced that it would allow women to take the second pill required for a medical abortion–misoprostol–at home, rather than requiring them to travel to a clinic. The...
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Is Noninvasive Prenatal Genetic Testing Eugenic?

Before noninvasive prenatal screening becomes a routine part of gestational care, society needs to have difficult conversations about the ethical implications and establish a paradigm for truly informed consent in...
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Preventing Sex-Selective Abortions in America: A Solution in Search of a Problem

Arkansas has recently joined seven other states (Arizona, Kansas, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota) in banning abortions for sex selection. Arizona’s law requires doctors to ask...
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Neil Gorsuch, Aid in Dying, and Roe v. Wade

Given the chance, would Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch vote to overturn Roe v Wade? Challenge state "death with dignity" laws?
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