Conscience Wars
Trevor Stammers argues for the importance of conscientious objection in good medical practice There have been increasingly strident calls to see conscientious objection... Read more.
Book Reviews – Triple Helix – Autumn 2020
Christianity and The New Eugenics: Should We Choose to Have only Healthy or Enhanced Children? Calum MacKellar IVP 2020 ,224pp, £12.199, ISBN: 9781783599134 Reviewed... Read more.
Archie Battersbee’s Legacy
Can we learn the lessons from this tragic case? A heart-rending series of legal disputes surrounding twelve-year-old Archie Battersbee was fought not only in the... Read more.
news & comment
when is a baby not a baby? changing the language of abortion Full story at cmf.li/3yfMHlO Jennie Pollock CMF Head of Public Policy On On 27 February 2023, BBC’s... Read more.
Mitochondrial manipulated births: a muted reception
For a prospect anticipated for almost 20 years, the announcement in a Guardian exclusive of the successful birth of one or more babies from one or other technique... Read more.
When is a ‘synthetic’ embryo a real embryo?
Embryonic stem cell-derived embryos (ESCDEs) have been around for a long time. Last year, an ESCDE, assembled from mouse cells in vitro, replicated natural mouse... Read more.
Moral flip-flopping over doctors and the death penalty
I have long argued that ethicists who advocate euthanasia while at the same time being opposed to capital punishment have a morally untenable position and recent... Read more.
‘Of Mice and Men’
The Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in 2018 really hit the headlines when Prof He Janjkui announced he had carried out heritable genome editing... Read more.
Neuro-silicon interfaces: a new mode of being?
The idea of humankind being merely machines has a long history, stretching back to Julien Offrey De La Mettrie’s Man a Machine, published in 1747. The ‘man-machine’... Read more.
Desperate for organs
‘What can a man give in return for his life?’ asks Jesus rhetorically of his disciples and the crowds following him (Mark 8:37, RSV). In doing so, he implicitly... Read more.
