UPDATE: A number of advocacy groups have sued to prevent the rule from going into effect, including the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and Southampton Community Healthcare in St. Louis. The petition says “The Rule targets gender-affirming care with unprecedented … Continue reading
In the United States, a new and troubling health disparity has arisen: Black folks are a disproportionate share of COVID-19 mortality. This highlights existing, background disparities that make some folks more vulnerable than others to the ravages of illness. This … Continue reading
FAB 2020 virtual conference presenters: Please note that the error regarding shortened presentation times has been corrected, and even though the online form might say that you have ten minutes for your presentation (for example), you actually have your original … Continue reading
Whenever we see stories about the “plight” of women in developing nations, it’s critically important to step back and ask whether the journalistic framing is rooted in condescending colonialism, painting a picture of a problem as affecting women in the … Continue reading
Over at Canada’s Impact Ethics blog, feminist bioethicists and disability theorists Teresa Blankmeyer Burke and Jackie Leach Scully reflect on the Russian project to use CRISPR technologies to “correct a mutation that leads to hereditary deafness.” Blankmeyer Burke and Scully … Continue reading
“Close your knees, girl!” –my Aunt Carolyn to me, age 6 “You’re such a monster!” “Yeah, Crane monster!” “Cranemonster!” –kids when I played soccer/football hard during PE (my maiden name: Crane) “Not only is there a typical style of throwing … Continue reading
For decades, feminists and feminist bioethicists in particular have been pointing out that male responsibility for birth control is essentially limited to barrier methods, e.g. condoms, and to withdrawal. While condoms have the advantage of also reducing the transmission of … Continue reading
Alas, I am getting ready to go to FAB Congress in Bangalore, India soon, so I don’t have the time to craft a full argument on two news stories about reproductive ethics that came to my attention this past week. … Continue reading
Two years ago, in the wake of an incident in which a black woman doctor attempted to render medical aid and was dismissed due to doubt that she was a physician, IJFAB Blog featured a post on the issue of … Continue reading
Hello, folks. Sometime in the past day or two, one of the blog’s authors was hacked. Someone then posted a series of semi-random posts backdated for several months. In most case we have seen that people who use it – … Continue reading
Yesterday, The Guardian reported on the dire straits afflicting Debora Diniz in Brazil. Diniz, a founding member of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network (FABnet) which birthed IJFAB and consequently this blog, has gone into hiding. Diniz has long experienced harassment in … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: This is Part 4 in the IJFAB Blog mini-series on pedagogy, with a focus on teaching about oppression, disadvantage, and privilege. Part 1 dealt with dogmatically unyielding students, while Parts 2 and 3 gave the professor and student sides … Continue reading