Judge blocks restrictive Ohio abortion law as suit proceeds
By JULIE CARR SMYTH - Associated Press
CINCINNATI (AP) — A judge has permanently blocked a ban on virtually all abortions in Ohio as a state…
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Judge hears arguments in challenge to Ohio abortion law
CINCINNATI (AP) — The nation's abortion debate arrived in a courtroom in Ohio on Friday, as attorneys fighting for and against extending a stay on the state's near total ban…
How Can Society Prepare for the Moral Norms of Tomorrow?
One way of embracing this uncertainty is to adopt a stance of axiological open-mindedness toward the future. We can get a sense of what this might entail by considering how it works today. …
In Humanity’s Collective Unconscious, the Body Is a Bad Dream
The first images that I tried to generate from Dall-E Mini were of cartoon characters getting colonoscopies. The website, now called Craiyon, houses an artificial intelligence model that…
Embryonic Research Could Be the Next Target After ‘Roe’
Two weeks after the US Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion, Ye Yuan heard from a woman who wanted to reverse her decision to donate her embryos to scientific research.…
How Dobbs Threatens to Torpedo Privacy Rights in the US
In future cases, the Supreme Court continued to acknowledge that its heightened protection for privacy rights was a product of substantive due process review while insisting that this was…
Abortion and bioethics: Principles to guide U.S. abortion debates
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide the fate of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established the nationwide right to choose an abortion. If the court’s decision hews…
SC medical ethics law prompts concerns re: LGBTQ healthcare
A new South Carolina law that allows physicians, medical students and nurses to refrain from doing procedures that violate their conscience has prompted concern that the…
It’s Time to Burn Medical Consent Forms
What could this look like? What could someone change today, right now, without having to gear up for a fight with lawyers about contract wording? Start with the artifacts–the physical things…
Science Is Redefining Motherhood. If Only Society Would Let It
Karl, a PhD and lecturer at MIT, gave birth to both of his children—and despite being the one with the baby bump, he was routinely asked to wait outside while the nurses attended to his (not…