By The Petrie-Flom Center Harvard Clinical Bioethics Course June 12–14, 2013 • Wednesday–FridayHarvard Medical School, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA Earn up to 21.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits This intensive course is designed for members of ethics committees and others interested in ethical aspects of clinical practice. The target audiences are physicians, ethics consultants,…
By I. Glenn Cohen The New England Journal of Medicine just published a new article by me (and my frequent co-author Dean Eli Adashi) entitled “Made-to-Order Embryos for Sale — A Brave New World?” As we note in the article: The proliferation of commercial gamete sources (e.g., sperm and oocyte banks) has opened the door…
By John Robertson The meeting at Rutgers-Camden on convergences and divergences between abortion and assisted reproduction (to use Glenn Cohen’s term) was stimulating and interesting on many fronts. To pick up on one such issue, must physicians who reduce pregnancies to twins or singletons comply with state regulations for abortion? Many of us thought that they…
By Kimberly Mutcherson On Friday, April 5, a group of almost 30 (mostly legal) scholars gathered at Rutgers Law-Camden to have difficult conversations about abortion and assisted reproduction. The event, sponsored by Rutgers Law and the Law School Initiative of the Center for Reproductive Rights (https://reproductiverights.org/en/our-work/law-school-initiative) sought to initiate discussion about the seeming gulf between…
By I. Glenn Cohen I have a new peer-commentary paper in the American Journal of Bioethics, entitled “Of Modest Proposals and Non-Identity: A Comment on the Right to Know Your Genetic Parents.” This is a response to An Ravelingien and Guido Pennings’s very interesting article “The Right to Know Your Genetic Parents: From Open-Identity Gamete…
By Allison M. Whelan So much of the political and legal debate about reproductive choice centers on abortion. In doing so, these debates obscure so many other reproductive choices women must make. And the choices are not easy—and the stakes are even greater in an era where any prenatal missteps might lead to aggressive state…
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Dov Fox has an interesting new piece up at HuffPo examining the constitutionality of the abortion restrictions just enacted in North Dakota: As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in the same-sex marriage cases, North Dakota enacted three of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. Two of them are unlike any ever considered…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Piggy-backing on Glenn’s post below, I just wanted to point you to my contribution to the same symposium issue of Ethical Perspectives. The paper, “Religious Liberty, Conscience, and the Affordable Care Act,” can be downloaded here, and copied below is the abstract: Broadly applicable legal requirements often come into conflict with moral…
