Policy, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
Personhood, When Convenient?
In early August, an Alaska woman named McKenna West was serving as a gestational surrogate for a Los Angeles couple when...
Subject: Reproductive Ethics
Health Regulation & Law, In the News, Reproductive Ethics
In the News… When Psychiatry Fails Women: Lessons from the Lindsay Clancy Trial
When Psychiatry Fails Women: Lessons from the Lindsay Clancy Trial Lindsay Clancy is a former labor and delivery nurse w...
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 ...
Clinical Ethics, Reproductive Ethics
How the IVF Industry Exploits Down Syndrome Anxiety to Hard Sell the Controversial PGT-A T...
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is emotionally and financially taxing, especially for women of advanced maternal age. As ma...
Health Regulation & Law, Reproductive Ethics
Florida State Supreme Court Rules on Do-It-Yourself Sperm “Donations”
Recently, the Florida Supreme Court issued a ruling that a man, Angel Rivera, who provided sperm through an informal DIY...
Clinical Ethics, Health Care, Reproductive Ethics
Responding to Women’s Pain Demands Structural Change
It’s an unfortunate reality that in medical contexts, women’s pain continues to be ignored, overlooked, or treated as an...
Abortion, Decision making, Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Reproductive Ethics, Vulnerable Populations
Brain Death and Live Birth: History and Bioethics
This editorial appears in the January Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Ariane Lewis et al. have produced a com...
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...
Abortion, End of Life Care, Ethics, Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Policy, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
The Adriana Smith Case Unfolding in Atlanta Raises Many Questions
The widely discussed Adriana Smith case unfolding in Atlanta raises many thorny ethical questions. Despite the case’s hi...
Abortion, Conflict of Interest, Health Regulation & Law, Reproductive Ethics
The US Needs Confidential Birth
The coin was severed into two pieces, each with a puncture hole. The parents threaded string through one of the halves a...
Cultural, Editorial-AJOB, Reproductive Ethics
Health Consequences of an Ideological Perspective on Population Growth in Iran
This editorial can be found in the July 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics The promise of “Independence, Fr...
Editorial-AJOB, Reproductive Ethics
Bodily Autonomy & the Patient’s Right to Refuse Medical Care
This editorial can be found in the February 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. The Supreme Court’s decisio...