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...bioethicist, I have a question about the justification of infanticide by Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on the grounds that "a very disabled child can mean a disabled family." Why apply this consideration only to disabled infants? Cheating husbands, alcoholic wives and nagging mothers-in-law are just a few of the many sorts of people who can mean a very disabled family. Why not kill them too? Felicia Nimue Ackerman Professor of Philosophy Brown University Providence, Rhode Island...
...bioethicist, I have a question about the justification of infanticide by Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology on the grounds that "a very disabled child can mean a disabled family." Why should the College apply this consideration only to disabled infants? Cheating husbands, alcoholic wives and nagging mothers-in-law are just a few of the many sorts of people who can mean a very disabled family. Why not kill them...
...surgeons, issued a statement criticizing the use of death-row prisoners' organs in transplants - because it cannot verify China's claim that it only procures organs from prisoners who have given consent. "I don't believe anybody in a prison would be sitting around having voluntary consent discussions," says bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania. For its part, China's Ministry of Health maintains that Chinese hospitals perform "very few" transplants using executed inmates' organs. But Bek-Medical, a broker based in Japan that advertises "fast, cheap and safe" transplants for foreigners who are willing to travel...
...surgeons, issued a statement criticizing the use of death-row prisoners' organs in transplants-because it cannot verify China's claim that it only procures organs from prisoners who have given consent. "I don't believe anybody in a prison would be sitting around having voluntary consent discussions," says bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania...
...animal DNA into human embryos as a kind of marker, to help them understand how disease develops. Some research involves the intentional creation and destruction of human embryos, however, which is controversial. ?I?m afraid that wasn?t the most precise moment of the speech,? argues University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan. ?The image he used was something like a minotaur, like he was trying to prohibit the creation of half-man, half-bull creatures. No one?s interested in doing that and it?s probably biologically impossible to do that. But what he was doing was making...