Politics
An Open Letter of Support for Anthony Fauci from the Bioethics Community
As individuals concerned with ethics in science, medicine, and public health, we wish to express our dismay at the appro...
Subject: Politics
Clinical Ethics, In the News, Policy, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
In The News…A Surrogate, Parents, and Politics: Clearing up the Ethics of Surrogacy ...
This essay is a part of our “In the News…” series, where bioethicists give their take on popular news ...
Black Bioethics, Cultural, Politics
Eviscerating the Voting Rights Act, Black Bioethics, and the Ancestors
When I was promoted and received tenure, I received a card from another Black woman professor that said, “The ancestors ...
Global Ethics, Policy, Politics, Vulnerable Populations
An Open Letter to the American Red Cross and the International Red Cross: Calling for Imme...
February 27, 2026 The death of an immigrant detainee at an El Paso, Texas facility has been ruled a homicide, according ...
Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Health Regulation & Law, Policy, Politics, Public Health
Citation Accuracy in the Make America Healthy Again Report (MAHA)
This editorial appears in the March Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics ncreasing attention has been devoted to q...
Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Health Regulation & Law, Policy, Politics, Public Health
When ICE Brings You the Patient … Hospitals Must Stop Victimizing Forensic Patients
This editorial appears in the March Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics The recent increases in the number of per...
Children/Adolescents, Clinical Ethics, Decision making, Ethics, Health Care, Health Regulation & Law, LGBTQ ethics, Pediatrics, Policy, Politics
HHS Report on Pediatric Gender Affirming Care and CMS Proposed Threat to Medicaid Funding ...
The Department of Health and Human Services released the report, The Treatment of Pediatric Gender Dysphoria (herein ...
Cultural, Politics, Race
Is the Recent Effort to Glorify Whole Milk Tainted by Racism?
The Federal government has launched a highly visible campaign to promote drinking whole milk. The USDA is running a R...
Policy, Politics, Public Health, Vaccines
The Orwellification of the CDC
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” (George Orwell, 1984) According to the CDC w...
Policy, Politics, Public Health
Revoking Pedestrian Safety Grants is a Matter of Health, Not Just Policy
The health of our society is a social determinant of health. This means that political happenings in our country that in...
Clinical Ethics, Policy, Politics, Vaccines
No surprise: RFK Jr will find some nonsensical reason to link autism to vaccines
At his confirmation hearing to be the 26th Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Ken...
Policy, Politics, Public Health, Reproductive Ethics
The Dark Side of Wearables: A Potential Fertility Surveillance Network
While there is an abundance of literature noting the risks of period tracking apps in jurisdictions with strict abortion...