Next: “Digital Twins” as a Matter of “Equity”?

Artificial Intelligence, bioethics, body integrity identity disorder, digital twins, disease, doctors, equity, gender-fluidity, government benefits, healing, health insurance, healthcare, Journal of Medical Ethics, Medicine, patients, reprogramming, Technology, trans identity, transgendeism, transgender people, transhumanists, transition, wellness
Medicine is no longer just about treating disease, healing injuries, and promoting physical wellness. Source
Read More

We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

animals, bioethicists, brains, Culture & Ethics, doctors, experts, human life, humanized animals, humans, International Society for Stem Cell Research, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, Medicine, mental capacities, neural function, organoids, personalized animals, personhood theory, philosophers, pig, rats, Research, Sergiu Paşca, speciesism, unborn humans
Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Source
Read More

Leading Bioethics Journal Pathologizes Pregnancy

anti-humanism, anti-natalism, back pain, bioethics, bleeding gums, childbirth, civil rights, Culture & Ethics, disease, doctor, Gender Dysphoria, headaches, heartburn, indigestion, infertility, Journal of Medical Ethics, measles, Medicine, morning sickness, nipples, nosebleeds, pathogen, patient, pelvic pain, piles, pregnancy, recovery, sleep problems, stomach pain, stretch marks, swollen ankles, thrush, tiredness, vaginal bleeding, vaginal discharge, vomiting, weight gain
The views expressed are consistent with the increasing anti-natalism seen lately in philosophy and bioethics. Source
Read More

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

abortion, American Pediatric Association, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, bioethics, birth, California, Canada, Culture & Ethics, doctors, ethics, Finland, France, Gender Dysphoria, gender-affirming care, geographical features, glaciers, Holocaust, human exceptionalism, human life, insects, Jews, Journal of Medical Ethics, Life Sciences, mastectomies, Netherlands, Ontario, Oregon, organ donation, peas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, plants, rivers, Sweden, unborn children, United Kingdom, Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Source
Read More

Pro-Abortion Absolutism and Its Consequences

abortion, Abortion Care Guideline, absolutists, after-birth abortion, bioethics, Christian florist, Colorado, embryonic stem cell research, embryos, ethcis, faith, fetus, Groningen protocol, human beings, Journal of Medical Ethics, Medicine, Netherlands, Peter Singer, pregnancy, public policy, rights, science, Second Amendment, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn, Vermont, World Health Organization
Abortion absolutism is a radical departure from the once well-accepted idea that nascent human beings — at least at some level — deserve respect and protection. Source
Read More