REWIND: It’s August. My childhood chums and I are nine going on ten. We’re running through lawn sprinklers trying to escape the stifling heat that visits our Midwest town every ‘Dog Days’ season. We aren’t […]
The surrogacy industry got its start based on the same principles of bodily autonomy and privacy that piloted Roe v. Wade and abortion—what the surrogate or egg donor does with her own body is her […]
The biopharma sprint toward production of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine has everyone’s attention. Some experts predict one of two vaccine producers will be first to reach the finish line: Sanofi-GSK with its Sars-CoV […]
The Gospel of John saturates our minds and hearts with the law of self-gift. The life-defining reality that the Son of God—out of his infinite mercy—gave up his body and poured out his blood is […]
Some fertility specialists are touting a new fertility treatment as a “Catholic-friendly” alternative to traditional in vitro fertilization. Catholic couples struggling with infertility—willing to try the procedure if, indeed, it is ethical—need help to cut […]
Here is why only genetic engineers who understand and act from a classical virtue ethics are capable of adding moral ballast to the fast-moving ship […]
Recently, Ronit Y. Stahl, PhD and Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD penned a contentious editorial published in the April 6 edition of New England Journal of Medicine entitled Physicians, Not Conscripts – Conscientious Objection in Health […]
Professor Sherry Turkle, founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, has studied the psychology of human interactions with computational artifacts since the 1970s. In the nascent years of the 21st century, […]
Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in health coverage and care. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released the Final […]
There are emerging conflicts in what I call the second round of health care conscientious objection. The first round, following Roe v. Wade, continues to engage religious health care providers in conscientious objection to abortion, […]
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