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Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits

This editorial can be found in the March 2023 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. You can find it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uajb20/23/3 Bowman-Smart et al. have written a thoughtful and balanced essay examining some of the ethical issues surrounding large scale use of noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) and the thorny question of whether it should be […]

March 15, 2023

In Memoriam: Michael Alan Grodin, MD

Photo Caption: Michael Grodin (left) and George Annas at Nuremberg for the 50th anniversary of the Doctors’ Trial, 1996. A most horrific Mexican saying (as I’ve heard it) is said to be “May your life be filled with lawyers.” Physician Michael Grodin, aka “Dr. G,” who died peacefully on March 1, surrounded by family, lived […]

March 14, 2023

The Way We Die: Seeds of Wisdom from President Carter and My Mother

“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.” – Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President Our country now waits in anticipatory grief. Closer to home, with his decision to begin hospice care, President Jimmy Carter’s choice mirrors the decision-making about my late mother’s medical care. Both President Carter and my mother had […]

March 6, 2023

In Memoriam: Garland Allen

If you called Garland Allen a Bioethicist, he would surely have corrected you and denied that he deserved such a label. Yet he was at his very core concerned about what is ethical in the ways humans treat each other. And at the core of his work was persistent probing how to promote fairness, equity, […]

February 20, 2023