bioethics
Mario Cuomo’s overlooked contributions to bioethics (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — January 6, 2015
(RNS) Through the New York state's Task Force on Life and the Law, he helped shift the center of the medical universe to the patient.
Belgium may let suffering children choose to die. Would you?
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — February 13, 2014
A bioethicist doubts euthanasia without age limits -- now legal in the Netherlands and just approved by the Belgian Parliament -- will be legal in the USA any time soon, if ever.
Human cloning breakthrough prompts religious objections
By David Gibson — May 15, 2013
(RNS) News that scientists in Oregon had for the first time recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos prompted dire warnings from religious leaders who say the research crosses a bioethical red line and could lead to designer babies.
COMMENTARY: The coming culture war over fertility technology
By A. James Rudin — July 19, 2012
(RNS) Assisted reproductive technology, or ART, is the fancy name for the nation's next hot-button culture war issue. Better get used to it. By A. James Rudin.
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