Bioethics Articles
Motherhood in the age of abortion & IVF
Mother’s Day should be an occasion for the celebration of our mothers, a day to venerate the office of motherhood [...]
Global surrogacy debate continues in Rome
Joanna Alphonso: Experts from around the world gathered in Rome’s LUMSA University (Libera Universita Maria SS. Assunta—a private Catholic university) [...]
Courts rule what a child is
Rory Leishman: On Feb. 16, the Supreme Court of Alabama touched off an international uproar, by holding that the state’s [...]
Transgender medicine exposed a medical malpractice
Paul Tuns: Leaked files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) show that medical professionals routinely practice medical [...]
Contraception is priority for national pharmacare program
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 29, federal Health Minister Mark Holland introduced Bill C-64, “An Act respecting pharmacare,” fulfilling the 2022 [...]
Alabama court rules frozen embryos qualify as ‘children’ under law
Oswald Clark: On Feb. 17, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that under the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, embryonic [...]
State-sanctioned sterility
As many provinces celebrate Family Day, there is a movement afoot, in both Ontario and Manitoba, to follow the example [...]
Pope Francis calls for ban on surrogacy
Paul Tuns: During his annual address to diplomats in January, Pope Francis called surrogacy “a grave violation of the dignity [...]
Ontario free contraception motion defeated
Paul Tuns A private member’s bill, Motion 36, that called upon the Ontario Ministry of Health to provide universal access [...]
Baby Indi, RIP
In recent years, the world has been treated to shockingly inhumane episodes, repeated with minor variations but with the same [...]
Indi Gregory, murdered by the state
Joanna Alphonso: The story of eight-month-old English baby, Indi Gregory, rocked the world for weeks as her life-saving treatment turned [...]
The Revolt Against Humanity
The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a World Without Us Adam Kirsch (Columbia Global Reports, $16, 99 pages) Adam Kirsch’s The [...]
And Then There Was This, June 2023
Hungary fights for the family The European Union, presently comprised of 27 nations, operates through a hybrid system of supranational [...]
And then there was this, April 2023
Heterosexual students happier, healthier than LGBQ+ students The U.S. Centres for Disease Control has completed and released its annual Youth [...]
The transhuman cometh
The last canticle of Dante’s Divine Comedy begins with the poet taking stock of his unprecedented enterprise. Thus far, his [...]