Bioethics - Quillette

As a Hereditarian, I Strongly Support Economic Redistribution

A recognition that genetic influences on social outcomes are important will potentially influence the kind of help that society offers poorer individuals. But it does not in any way compel an absence of help, or a casual indifference.

Gregory Clark

21 Aug 2023 · 7 min read

Faith Goes to Switzerland

When should we allow a person to hasten her own death?

Brent M. Kious / Margaret Pabst Battin

7 Aug 2023 · 25 min read

The Case Against ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’

Canada’s assisted-death law seems connected to the atomization of our society—as much a symptom of inhumanity as a cause.

Brian Bird

7 Apr 2023 · 16 min read

The Philadelphia Experiments

How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America.

Allen M. Hornblum

10 Dec 2022 · 26 min read

An Australian Perspective on Abortion

The closest example of a counterfactual to Roe v. Wade is Australia, where there is a federal system with no unifying law or ruling concerning abortion.

Dara Macdonald

8 Jul 2022 · 11 min read

Get Ready for the Return of the Abortion Novel

The abortion novels that proliferated in the late 1960s were filled with characters who are forced by carelessness and circumstance to make the most agonizing of personal choices.

Kevin Mims

5 May 2022 · 26 min read

Biology Won’t Solve Your Problems with Abortion

Claiming that biological terms are authoritative and unambiguous is either a misunderstanding of biology or a failure to appreciate the difficulties inherent in applying linguistic categories to natural phenomena.

Frederick R. Prete

5 Oct 2021 · 12 min read

Rethinking Judith Jarvis Thomson’s Defense of Abortion

The abortion debate is primarily concerned with the bodily autonomy of the mother and/or of the fetus. The rights and duties of the father are seldom discussed.

Michael Robillard

19 Sep 2021 · 7 min read

The Moral Panic about Eugenics Poses a Threat to Abortion Rights

One of the reasons abortion bans on the basis of prenatal diagnoses may have received relatively little attention is because they leave the pro-choice Left in an uncomfortable ethical position.

Diana Fleischman

15 Sep 2021 · 10 min read

Looking for COVID-19 ‘Miracle Drugs’? We Already Have Them. They’re Called Vaccines

The evidence that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are safe, and that they work, is about as solid as medical evidence gets.

Claire Berlinski and Yuri Deigin

6 Jul 2021 · 14 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

Teenagers are being told that puberty is a time for them to make decisions about sex and gender, this at a time when they have none of the life experience that would be necessary to make such existential choices.

Angus Fox

18 Jun 2021 · 16 min read

The Hard Problems of Vegetarianism

Humans are gratuitously inflicting pain and suffering on intelligent, sentient creatures for no other reason than because they enjoy the taste of their meat, the texture of their skin, or the softness of their fur.

Daniel Issing

29 Apr 2021 · 12 min read

The Transhumanist Case for Liberty

The pursuit of material immortality, even if material immortality cannot be realized, is the most reasonable long-term course of civilization; it’s thus the busywork of humanity.

Mark Goldblatt

8 Apr 2021 · 15 min read

Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology

But it is sad to see established facts now suppressed along with undesirable beliefs and opinions. And to see our institutions of higher learning being led to this kind of neo-obscurantism in the name of enlightened social attitudes.

Constantin Polychronakos

5 Apr 2021 · 10 min read

Standing on the Shoulders of Ogres

The aim of antenatal screening is to discourage the birth of people with severe disabilities.

Sean Welsh

16 Mar 2021 · 10 min read