A new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Human Rights Watch suggests Venezuela is in the midst of a major health emergency. While the crisis began two years after the economic crisis in 2010, it … Continue reading
The maternal mortality rate following a C-section in Africa may be 50 times higher than that of high-income countries, according to a study of more than 3,500 mothers from 22 African countries, published in The Lancet Global Health journal. Maternal … Continue reading
“Sick pregnant women”: the three little words that can make potential investors in medical research run for the hills. On Thursday, an article in the Washington Post described the efforts over two years of a team of researchers – including … Continue reading
As you may know, the US has recently been in the throes of an impassioned debate over abortion. There has recently been a great deal of discussion of New York’s new abortion law, and on Virginia politicians’ claims about late … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: From time to time, IJFAB Blog features content that isn’t directly about bioethics but is most assuredly about feminism and gender. This helps us to get our own frameworks clear, whether because we agree with the author or are … Continue reading
EDITOR’S NOTE: This guest post by the Ethics Working Group on ZIKV Research & Pregnancy is cross-posted with the Canadian Bioethics blog Impact Ethics. The Ethics Working Group on ZIKV Research & Pregnancy provides recommendations to ensure that pregnant women are … Continue reading
Amidst the flurry of news in the last week over artificial wombs–a primitive artificial placental sack, or “biobag”, sustained sheep fetuses for four weeks–most of the coverage focused on the value in caring for premature infants. I was reminded of Judith … Continue reading
GUEST CONTRIBUTORS Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra (Dr. sc. med., Research Associate, Liminal Spaces Project; Teaching Fellow, School of Law; Executive committee member, Mason Institute; University of Edinburgh Law School, UK) Verina Wild (Dr. med., Philosophy Department, Ludwig-Maximilians- University Munich, Germany) Social media … Continue reading
On January 23, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump reinstated Reagan’s so-called Mexico City Policy, also known as the “global gag rule.” In the process, he also added text that makes a substantive change going farther than any U.S. national-level anti-abortion … Continue reading
The controllers of pregnant women are at it again. In this case, however, it is not clear whether the controllers are seeking to protect the fetus, the woman, or both. They may even be seeking to protect the hospital against … Continue reading
By Katy Fulfer and Angel Petropanagos At the recent FABWorld Congress in Mexico City, a panel on Ethics of Uterine Transplantation outlined three ethical challenges. Ariel Lefkowitz and Jacques Balayla, authors of the Montreal Criteria for Ethical Feasibility of Uterine … Continue reading
U.S. states have long had the power to override a pregnant woman’s medical autonomy in specific kinds of instances in order to prevent harm to her fetus. Means for doing so have included court orders to compel C-section or to … Continue reading
