Should editing the human genome be allowed? What are the ethical implications of social
restrictions during a pandemic? Is it ethical to use animals in clinical research? Is prioritizing …

Children with neurodevelopmental disabilities in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs)
experience profound health and social inequities. While challenges faced by children living …

Simple Summary Traditional approaches to animal ethics depart from the assumption that
the moral consideration that we owe to different beings depends on their individual …

In January 2012, the Journal of Medical Ethics published online Giubilini and Minerva's
paper,'After-birth abortion. Why should the baby live?'. 1 The Journal publishes articles …

It is commonly argued that a serious right to life is grounded only in actual, relatively
advanced psychological capacities a being has acquired. The moral permissibility of …

La teoría de la persistencia psicológica define a las personas como seres capaces de crear
un concepto de sí mismos mediante la continuidad en el tiempo de sus estados mentales …

Embryo rescue cases and minimal miscarriage prevention research have been interpreted
as showing that even pro‐lifers are not really committed to the unborn having the same …

Explaining Right and Wrong aims to shake the foundations of contemporary ethics by
showing that moral philosophers have been deploying a mistaken methodology in their …

Advances in medicine can reduce active euthanasia of newborns with severe anomalies or
unusual prematurity, but they cannot eliminate it. In the Netherlands, voluntary active …

When an abortion is performed, someone dies. Are we killing a human person? Widespread
disagreement exists. However, it is not necessary to establish personhood in order to …