Bioethics

Gender-affirming interventions not supported by evidence: government review

Oswald Clark: On May 1, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a comprehensive 409-page review, “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices,” which found gender-affirming interventions such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex reassignment surgeries are supported only by low- or very low-quality evidence, while the potential for irreversible harm is substantial. A review [...]

admin2025-06-13T11:07:34-04:00June 13, 2025|Bioethics, Society & Culture|

Abortion pill 22 times more dangerous than manufacturer, government claim

Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: Senator Josh Hawley has called for stricter regulation of the abortion pill. A new report, “The Abortion Pill Harms Women: Insurance Data Reveals One in Ten Patients Experiences a Serious Adverse Event,” from the Ethics and Public Policy Center found that the abortion drug mifepristone causes 22 times more serious adverse effects than is claimed [...]

admin2025-06-09T09:00:24-04:00June 9, 2025|Abortion, Bioethics|

Halton Catholic school board rejects pro-life motion to block abortion funding

Interim Staff: On April 8, the Halton Catholic District School Board rejected a motion to prevent school funds from supporting abortion, contraception, euthanasia, or embryonic stem cell experiments in a lopsided 2-5 vote against the motion. Oakville school trustee Helena Karabela tabled the amendment to the HCDSB Fundraising Activities Policy to ensure no school funds are used to support abortion or other [...]

admin2025-05-16T11:23:58-04:00May 16, 2025|Abortion, Bioethics, Politics, Society & Culture|

And then there was this, April 2025

No aborted baby parts to be used in NIH research Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine, economics, and health research at Stanford University, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new Director of the National Institutes of Health. Bhattacharya came to international recognition and criticism when he co-authored, with Dr. Sunetra Gupta and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, The Great Barrington [...]

admin2025-04-15T10:05:11-04:00April 15, 2025|Abortion, Bioethics, Marriage and Family, Religion, Society & Culture|

The Detransition Diaries

The Detransition Diaries Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell (Ignatius Press, $24.95, 246 pages) Documentarian Jennifer Lahl (Trans Mission) and perinatal nurse Kallie Fell have written a short, powerful, timely argument against transgender ideology. There are several short chapters on issues surrounding gender dysphoria such as “The rise of the gender-affirmation movement,” “Lessons not learned from medical abuses,” “Why is the trend higher among [...]

admin2025-04-03T10:59:25-04:00April 3, 2025|Bioethics, Society & Culture|

Is there a link between autism and gender confusion

Mary Zwicker: Individuals who suffer from gender confusion are more likely to be on the autism spectrum and vice versa, studies reveal. Various studies have demonstrated a link between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and gender confusion, revealing that a higher percentage of gender confused individuals are on the autism spectrum compared to “cis-gender” people, while at the same time, higher numbers of [...]

admin2025-03-20T10:27:13-04:00March 20, 2025|Bioethics, Society & Culture|

RFK to look at abortion pill dangers

Oswald Clark: New Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy announced he will investigate the safety of the abortion pill. After being sworn in as the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told Fox News that he would study the dangers of the abortion pill. Kennedy, who said he was pro-abortion when he [...]

admin2025-03-19T15:25:15-04:00March 19, 2025|Abortion, Bioethics, Politics|

Unfinished business, or the Post-Dobbs Moment (III)

By any measure, the bygone days of the Biden administration were dark ones for the pro-life movement in America: no position seemed too radical, and no progressive agenda—from gender ideology to the criminalization of public, peaceful pro-life witness—was left behind. In a strange way, however, the very strides that this administration made towards the dystopian nightmare of left-wing ideology were what sealed [...]

admin2025-03-18T11:32:44-04:00March 18, 2025|Abortion, Bioethics, Politics|

Is humanity the sum of its information networks?

Sarah Stilton Review: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari (Signal, $45, 492 pages) Yuval Noah Harari is something of a rock star public intellectual who burst onto the scene with his 2014 book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, originally published in Hebrew in 2011. Previously a military historian, the Oxford-trained [...]

admin2025-03-12T12:17:32-04:00March 12, 2025|Bioethics, Reviews, Society & Culture|

Musk predicts future of cashless society shared with humanoid robots

Paul Tuns: Presenting to the UAE World Governments Summit 2025 by video conference, the world’s richest man and President Donald Trump’s right-hand man Elon Musk envisioned a future in which humanoid robots directed by “deep intelligence” would produce a nearly infinite array of products and services that would render money meaningless. The answer came from a question at the United Arab Emirates [...]

admin2025-03-05T19:29:36-05:00March 5, 2025|Bioethics, Society & Culture|

An epistemological crisis

Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I came across an Instagram reel of a massive centipede-like creature in the desert and the only reason I thought it was generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is because I have never—in my over 28 years on this planet—seen anything like it before, which made me wonder if, had I been younger, I would [...]

admin2025-02-27T12:51:12-05:00February 26, 2025|Abortion, Bioethics, Josie Luetke|

And then there was this, January 2025

By J.M. Glover: Billboards and the ‘culture of fear’ True North Centre reported that the mega-giant Pattison Outdoor billboard company has “cancelled a contract” with the Manitoba pro-life group, Life Culture, saying that the requested image “creates too much controversy” and that the company received “a lot of back-lash for similar designs in the past.” What is controversial about a picture of [...]

admin2025-02-06T10:15:13-05:00January 31, 2025|Abortion, Bioethics, Book Review|

Spain considers extending rights to apes

Mary Zwicker: The Spanish Ministry of Social Rights proposed a new law to extend human rights to apes (chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas) due to their “genetic closeness” to human beings. A European country has proposed to extend certain human rights to apes while the lives of unborn babies remain unprotected in their society. In Spain, where unborn children can be [...]

admin2024-11-13T11:00:15-05:00November 13, 2024|Bioethics|

The Occasional Human Sacrifice

The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No Carl Elliott (Norton, $39.99, 355 pages) Medical ethics professor Carl Elliott’s The Occasional Human Sacrifice is unlikely to engender greater trust in the medical profession as it explores six controversial cases in which medical researchers treated human beings as guinea pigs. Often the patients consented to the interventions, albeit without [...]

admin2024-10-31T11:39:28-04:00October 1, 2024|Bioethics, Reviews|

On Call Review

On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service Anthony Fauci, M.D. (Viking, $48, 464 pages) The autobiography of Anthony Fauci, the public face of both the Trump and Biden White House responses to COVID, provides plenty of fodder for both fans and critics of Fauci’s handling of the pandemic. The books’ errors of fact and evasion of controversies might be forgivable but [...]

admin2024-10-01T12:11:53-04:00October 1, 2024|Bioethics, Reviews|

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