In The News: Trans Health is a Local and Global Issue

2024 is kicking off with… a lot of proposed anti-trans legislation and policies. Aspects of anti-trans sentiment and action can feel very particular to local, regional, or national politics and attitudes. Yet the fact of anti-trans legislation and regulation is … Continue reading

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MAiD and IJFAB: Why Bioethical Discourse is Not Endorsement
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In the past few months, a number of posts and Tweets from the Biopolitical Philosophy blog have stated that the International Journal of Feminist Bioethics (IJFAB) has ‘promoted’ medical assistance in dying (MAiD) along with the legislation currently being considered … Continue reading

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5 (Controversial?) Thoughts from a Bioethicist on the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Unhealthy habits such as smoking can also be a source of conflict, tension, confusion and pain, particularly when the woman is most fertile. buy tadalafil india Everything what I mention above makes sense in the advanced viagra levitra online stages … Continue reading

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Over at the Hastings Center, Nancy Berlinger urges bioethicists to move from outcry to action on migrant crises

In the US, a crisis has arisen due to government handling of much larger than usual numbers of asylum-seeking migrants at the southern border. Most are coming not from Mexico but through Mexico from other Central American and South American … Continue reading

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Unethical Care for Laboring Women in British Prisons and for Indigenous Women in Canada
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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

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Woman’s Body as Public Property: Title X and Reproductive Choice in Trump’s America
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Initiated in 1970, Title X is the only federal grant that is solely dedicated to providing family-planning funding, with a focus on serving low-income populations. The Title X program historically allowed all women, regardless of economic circumstances, access to birth … Continue reading

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Founding member of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network, Brazilian bioethicist Prof Debora Diniz, in hiding due to death threats

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

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How to Fail Chronic Pain Patients
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An article recently posted by NPR describes the latest solution to a crisis of which usually only one side is well-represented:  the well-publicized fear of opioid abuse versus the quieter, yet ongoing, experiences of chronic pain patients who are losing … Continue reading

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Pedagogy PART 1: Ideology vs. Philosophy
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Editor’s Note: Many IJFAB Blog readers spend a good part of their lives in teaching settings, doing pedagogy as teacher or learner or co-inquirer. Some are clinician educators (nurse educators or physicians working with residents and medical students), others are academic … Continue reading

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Sports are something we made, and we can remake them: trans athletes, fairness, and barriers in sports
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Let me start by echoing Talia Mae Bettcher that transgender women are women and transgender men are men (Bettcher, 2013). The definition of “woman” includes all those individuals who identify as a woman and the definition “man” includes all those … Continue reading

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“I keep telling you… I can’t get in the building”
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In this recent article from The Guardian, Frances Ryan (who reports frequently on disability issues) draws attention to the following Kafka-esque situation. Disabled people in the UK whose eligibility for benefits has to be assessed (ie, to check they are … Continue reading

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Outcome of Irish abortion vote: Repeal of the 8th
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I appreciated Sorcha’s excellent blog the other day in the lead-up to the Irish vote on whether to repeal the 8th amendment which was added to the Irish constitution 25 years ago. For more background, check it out.  But I … Continue reading

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