ETHICS: ARTICLES

Last update: August 19, 2009

• By Margaret Somerville, Director, the Centre for Medicine, Ethics & Law, McGill University

• Test tube children: Conceived without a voice
Mother of octuplets, 60-year-old mom compromise rights of children
(Feb 16/09. Western Catholic Reporter)

• Desperate mothers fuel India's 'baby factories'
'Even grandmother can be mother' at unregulated clinics
(Globe & Mail. Feb 13/09)

• Ethics and octuplets: Society is responsible
Mega-multiple births must be discouraged. If needed, government must get involved.
By Arthur Caplan, Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. (Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb 6/09)

• Persons and Their Parts: New Reproductive Technologies and Risks of Commodification
By Heather Widdows, Dept of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, UK. (Health Care Analysis, Jan 9/09)

• Squalling life after death: Post-mortem sperm retrieval makes possible embryo creation through IVF, and poses ethical questions. Law now requires consent before sperm harvested (National Post. Mar 9/09)

• The ethics of sperm donation (BioNews, Jun 19/09. By John Milbank, Centre of Theology & Philosophy, University of Nottingham, UK)

• The ethics of ART (May 20, 2009. Business Standard)

• The problem with 21st Century Motherhood (By Dr Sammy Lee, University College London. Aug 17/09. BioNews)