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How four women defended ethical thought from the legacy of positivism.

Macomb resident supports upholding the Roe V. Wade, 1973 US Supreme Court decision.

YOU could almost hear the sharp intake of breath across the nation when Glasgow Shettleston MSP John Mason commented that abortions are “seldom…

Physician-assisted suicide endangers the weak, corrupts medicine, compromises the family, and violates human dignity and legal equality.

Doctor holds images of an examination of an embryo In July 1978, Louise Brown was born in Manchester, UK—the first baby ever to be conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF). This made headlines around the world, and soon sparked debate about the ethics of IVF and the rapid pace of development in this and related technologies. In 1982, in response to public concern, the UK government set up a Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology to investigate the situation and make so...

FILM: The Special Status of Mary Warnock – From Fertility Treatment to Embryo Research This film documents the Progress Educational Trust (PET) event The Special Status of Mary Warnock: From Fertility Treatment to Embryo Research, which was held on what would have been the 97th birthday of the late Baroness Mary Warnock (1924-2019). The event was sponsored by the British Fertility Society, the London Egg Bank, Theramex and Reproduction and Fertility (a journal from the Society for Reproducti...

The emergence of iBlastoids: Time to update the law? Appeared in BioNews 1092 Adult human skin cells have been reprogrammed to form three-dimensional structures similar to early human embryos by a team led by Professor Jose Polo at Monash University, Australia (see BioNews 1088). Called iBlastoids, they could potentially enable us to learn how early human embryos develop and implant in the uterus. The studies could also lead to medical treatments for conditions such as infertility, miscarriage,...

The Special Status of Mary Warnock: From Fertility Treatment to Embryo Research Appeared in BioNews 1091 The latest online event held by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), the charity that publishes BioNews, was The Special Status of Mary Warnock: From Fertility Treatment to Embryo Research. This discussed the legacy of PETs late patron Baroness Mary Warnock, and her work in reproductive healthcare, research and regulation. Sarah Norcross, director of PET, began by thanking the sponsors befo...

The 14-day limit should be extended to 28 days Appeared in BioNews 1083 The 14-day rule, initially proposed in 1979 in the USA, was first recommended in the UK by the Warnock Committee in 1984. It limits research on intact human embryos to prior to 14 days gestation or the beginning of primitive streak formation and is part of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Acts of 1990 and 2008 (HFE Acts). This legislation has been successfully implemented in the UK, but also in several other countrie...