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Bioethics
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Health Law Prof Blog
Welcome to Guest Blogger Professor Mary Crossley
HealthLawProf Blog is excited to welcome the third of our three guest bloggers for April, Professor Mary Crossley: Mary Crossley is a Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Judith Daar and Erez Aloni on Mitochondrial Replacement
The Los Angeles Times - op-ed: Three genetic parents -- for one healthy baby, by Judith Daar & Erez Aloni (both of Whittier Law School):New technology would enable women who carry…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
FDA Advisory Panel Debates Ethics of “3-Parent Embryo” Procedure
USA Today: FDA raises concerns about three-parent embryo procedure, by Karen Weintraub:In two days of hearings ending Wednesday, a federal committee proved quite skeptical about research that might help some…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Brain-Dead, Pregnant Canadian Woman Kept on Life Support, at Husband’s Request, To Save Fetus
Reuters: Brain-dead Canadian woman kept on life support to save fetus, by Julie Gordon:A 32-year-old Canadian woman who has been declared brain dead is being kept on life support in a…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Increased Genetic Testing of Embryos Raises Ethical Questions
The New York Times: Ethics Questions Arise as Genetic Testing of Embryos Increases, by Gina Kolata:. . . Genetic testing of embryos has been around for more than a decade, but…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Spotlight on University of Hawaii Law’s James Pietsch
Last week I posted our first Elder Law Prof "Spotlight." We're using these opportunities to shine the light on faculty members in the U.S. and Canada who teach "law and aging" courses. We're looking…
The Faculty Lounge
Would Marlise Munoz’s Fetus Have Survived? Should It Have?
This is post is part of The Bioethics Program’s ongoing Online Symposium on the Munoz and McMath cases, which I've organized, and is cross-posted from the symposium. To see all…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Pregnant, Brain-Dead Woman Is Removed from Life-Support Pursuant to Court Order
The New York Times: Texas Woman Is Taken Off Life Support After Order, by Manny Fernandez:A Fort Worth hospital that kept a pregnant, brain-dead woman on life support for two months,…
PropertyProf Blog
A Market For Kidneys?
Over at the Faculty Lounge, Kimberly Krawiec has a post summarizing a recent Wall Street Journal editorial and some of her work on kidney donations:As a preview, the main takeaways…
The Right Coast
Cash for Kidneys: The Case for a Market for Organs – WSJ.com
In 2012, 95,000 American men, women and children were on the waiting list for new kidneys, the most commonly transplanted organ. Yet only about 16,500 kidney transplant operations were performed…