Through the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) multiple children are born, adding to worldwide carbon emissions.According to a paper in JME, evaluating the ethics of offering reproductive services against its overall harm to the e

Are Homebirths Immoral?

Jan 20th, 2014

Home births are slightly more risky than hospital births, so does this mean it's immoral for women to have one?Lachlan de Crespigny and obstetrician and gynechologist from the University of Melbourne, and Julian Savulescu, from the faculty of p

Journal of Medical Ethics podcast: Infanticide is never justified.

May 2nd, 2013

Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford explains why he believes abortion should be permissible before 18 weeks, but not beyond. Whilst he believes there may always be an element of arbitrarines

Journal of Medical Ethics podcast: Infanticide is sometimes justified.

May 2nd, 2013

Jeff McMahan, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University argues that, with our current medical knowledge, there are around four months where a foetus would survive if it were born prematurely. Therefore, the main difference between infantici

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