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Explore big issues in bioethics with John Lantos

Designer babies

Gene therapy

Artificial wombs

AI and Big Data
Disability rights
Babies born at the borderline of viability
Expensive and futile treatment
Euthanasia and other end-of-life choices

Read Dr. John Lantos's perspective on the ethical dilemmas society faces today

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This is not a three-parent child

A strange paper recently appeared in Nature, reporting that some (“fewer than five”) babies had been born in the UK following a...

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Sister Senators and South Carolina Supremes

Last week, I wrote about the Republican women who stopped a life-begins-at-conception ban on abortions in South Carolina. They have...

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Dobbs and Democracy in "Realville"

Roe v. Wade created a strange situation in American democracy. Politicians could posture against abortion without having to face the...

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Who's Afraid of Ectogenesis?

The idea of “ectogenesis” – growing babies outside the womb - has fired imaginations for over a century. In 1923, biochemist JBS Haldane...

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Is Pregnancy A Disease?

Philosopher Dan Brudney explored the implications the simple statement that pregnancy is not a disease. The paper is particularly...