How Adult Guardianship Law Fails to Protect Contraceptive Decision-Making Rights
Reform is needed to address the restrictions on reproductive decision-making rights that adults under guardianship currently face.
Personhood
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Read more: Pregnancy Loss, Abortion Rights, and a Holistic Reproductive Justice Movement Pregnancy Loss, Abortion Rights, and a Holistic Reproductive Justice Movement
The abortion rights and pregnancy loss communities can also work together to normalize and destigmatize all pregnancy outcomes.
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Read more: There’s More to Decision-Making Capacity than Cognitive Function There’s More to Decision-Making Capacity than Cognitive Function
The doctrine of capacity is vague, normatively and medically challenging, and inconsistently applied.
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Read more: Elder abuse is not substantiated Elder abuse is not substantiated
Philip C. Marshal is an elder justice advocate and founder of Beyond Brooke. The remarks below were prepared for Our Aging Brains: Decision-making, Fraud, and Undue Influence, part of the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience at Harvard Law School; April 27, 2018. The complete version of Decision-making, fraud, and undue influence—illustrated through the lens…
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Read more: Orcas, Dolphins, and Whales: non-human persons and animal rights Orcas, Dolphins, and Whales: non-human persons and animal rights
With few exceptions, most cultures put homo sapiens at the center or the apex of creation. Humans, it is generally believed, are distinguished from other animals by our self-awareness and our ability to use tools, to think, reason, and construct meaning and representations about life. The Abrahamic religious traditions are most notable in their anthropocentric…
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Read more: Islam and the Beginning of Human Life Islam and the Beginning of Human Life
When does human life begin? One of the more contentious bioethical and legal issues is about the beginning of human life. Nor is it difficult grasp why, for beyond political rhetoric it is a subject of considerable philosophical and legal debate and raises a number of questions which are profoundly difficult to answer. Biomedicine can…
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Read more: What are Our Duties and Moral Responsibilities Toward Humans when Constructing AI? What are Our Duties and Moral Responsibilities Toward Humans when Constructing AI?
Much of what we fear about artificial intelligence comes down to our underlying values and perception about life itself, as well as the place of the human in that life. The New Yorker cover last week was a telling example of the kind of dystopic societies we claim we wish to avoid. I say “claim”…
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Read more: Bioethics on the Ballot Bioethics on the Ballot
In addition to the closely-watched senate and gubernatorial candidates, 146 ballot questions were up for vote yesterday in 42 states across the nation. Below is a review of the some of the most pressing bioethics issues on the docket and the latest information on what passed according to Politico’s Ballot Tracker.
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Read more: Colorado Personhood Version 4.0 Colorado Personhood Version 4.0
By Jonathan F. Will [Cross-posted at Hamilton and Griffin on Rights.] This November citizens of Colorado will have an opportunity to vote on a proposed amendment (Amendment 67) to their state constitution that would define the words “person” and “child” in the Colorado Criminal Code and Colorado Wrongful Death Act to include “unborn human beings.” …