Swiss Women Abandoning the Pill Due to Adverse Health Effects

The use of the contraceptive pill is plummeting among younger women, in response to growing awareness of its destructive health effects, reports a French bioethics site.
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Obama to Revoke Bush Abortion Rule Protecting Conscience Rights

President Barack Obama is poised to rescind a policy that protects the conscience rights of American health care workers.

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Sex-Selection and Hair, Skin and Eye Color in High Demand from U.S. Artificial Reproduction Companies

Demand for sex-selection for in vitro fertilization is “rapidly growing” according to many private IVF facilities in the US. In a CNN report on sex-selection and other genetic screening tests at the Fertility Institutes IVF facility in California, a spokesman for the Center for Genetics and Society said that the widespread practice of sex-selective IVF [...]

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Beware of twisted ideas of freedom

A leading American bioethicist argues that ethics without some constraints is merely moral delinquency.

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Sexual insanity

A 13-year-old father? A woman with 14 IVF children? We can’t say we were not warned.

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Parental Consent Required For Tattoos in Maryland, But Not For Abortion

The Maryland House of Delegates has unanimously approved a proposal to require “parental consent” for tattoos and body piercings done on minors. However, the state still only requires that one parent be notified that a minor is going to have an abortion, with no need for the parent’s consent.
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Tapu Misa: When a shot in the arm’s no silver bullet

But as an August 2008 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine points out, there are reasons for caution. “The bad news is that the overall effect of the vaccines on cervical cancer remains unknown … the real impact of HPV vaccination … will not be observable for decades.” In other words, just because [...]

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