Bioethics

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 · 24 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.