the trouble with opt-outs
‘Organ donation is in crisis’ declared a recent headline in The Observer, as the number of people in the UK waiting for a transplant exceeded 8,000 for the first... Read more.
news and comment
committee stage takeaways The Leadbeater Bill is going forward after a flawed and ineffective scrutiny process see full story at cmf.li/4lgErsZ Susan Marriott is... Read more.
bag babies?
Just as children conceived through IVF became known colloquially as ‘test-tube babies’, the work being carried out by scientists to create artificial wombs has... Read more.
Truth and trust in transplantation
Transplant medicine is one of the greatest medical advances of the last century, but public trust is essential for it to attract potential donors – both living... Read more.
CMF file 76 – a very short introduction to ethics
in medicine we need to make ethical decisions in a grounded way... Read more.
a confluence of evils
the disturbing link between euthanasia and meeting the demand for organs Trevor Stammers is a retired GP and a former lecturer, course director, and editor in bioethics.... Read more.
Essentials : a very short introduction to ethics
Trevor Stammers shows that common frameworks all owe something to Christ It’s hard to deny that some things are morally right and others wrong. Those claiming... Read more.
A confluence of evils
There are times when you see a confluence of evils merging from afar, but they merge so slowly that most people remain totally unaware of them, or if they are they... Read more.
The UK’s first womb transplant – what the media missed out
The first UK ‘womb transplant’, carried out by Richard Smith’s team in Oxford and announced at the end of August, understandably gained a lot of press coverage... Read more.
The ethics of gene editing
Trevor Stammers offers a Christian analysis Before the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP) in 2003, it was thought there were around 80,000 coding genes... Read more.
