While there is an abundance of literature noting the risks of period tracking apps in jurisdictions with strict abortion laws, wearables collecting seemingly innocuous biological data pose similar risks. Many may be unaware of their ability to infer deeply personal reproductive information. With fewer eyes on this type of collection and prediction, this information could […]
This editorial appears in the August 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Echoing Ruth Macklin’s classic essay which challenged the assumption that dignity is a useful concept for bioethics, Nelson et al. offer a provocation regarding the concept of suffering. Is suffering useful? Like Macklin, Nelson et al. claim that concepts taken to be self-evident may […]
What should have happened in the tragic case of Adriana Smith, the two-months-pregnant woman who was declared brain dead but has been on life support since February at Emory Hospital in Atlanta, so that her baby might eventually be delivered by C-section? The hospital refused to let her die, concerned it would violate Georgia’s abortion […]
The widely discussed Adriana Smith case unfolding in Atlanta raises many thorny ethical questions. Despite the case’s high profile, the facts about what happened that led to a situation in which Emory University Hospital Midtown plans to deliver a fetus from a woman who has been dead for months, via C-section in August, are murky. […]
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