Medical Tourism - It’s No Vacation (14)
Our July podcast is all about medical tourism. This is a growing trend in the United States, where some patients are going to other countries for their medical care. The idea is perhaps understandable in a medical system overburdened with waiting lists, third-party payer denials, and high costs. But there are serious risks along with [...]
New Threats to Rights of Conscience
In this age of radical patient autonomy and patient rights, the rights of doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals can sometimes be shortchanged. This may happen when individual choice trumps the right of a health care worker to refuse to perform a morally-controversial procedure.
The latest assault on conscience comes from the Ethics Committee of [...]Bargain Abortions are a Threat to Women
If abortion can be done earlier, it can be done with fewer complications for women. So goes the familiar rationale for Mifeprex (mifepristone), the so-called abortion pill, developed in France by the designation ‘RU-486.’ Yet such early medical abortions are not easy. The pill must be followed up by a prostaglandin (misoprostol) which causes the [...]
Only One Child May Live
Steven Mosher paints a horrifying picture of the grim reality of the “One Child” policy in China. As a U.S. State Department representative in Guangdong Province in 1980, Mosher witnessed first-hand the forced abortions of women who committed the “crime” of becoming pregnant for the second time.
Since then, Mosher has become president of the [...]Down Syndrome Babies: An Endangered Species?
Recent developments in genetic testing are revolutionizing the ability to test for a variety of genetic disorders in unborn babies. Before now, this required a difficult, painful, and potentially hazardous procedure called amniocentesis, ususally reserved for expectant mothers over the age of 35. Amniocentesis itself carries a 0.5% miscarriage rate, but it has been used [...]
More on the Supreme Court’s Ruling
On April 19th, the U.S. Supreme Court reached a landmark decision. In a 5-4 decision, the Court upheld the 2003 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act as constitutional. There is much to rejoice about, yet much remains to be done.
The Court has struck a balance between a woman’s right to choose to terminate her pregnancy and [...]Breaking News: Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Upheld
By a narrow 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court today upheld a federal law banning the late-term abortion procedure called ‘intact dilation and extraction,’ better-known by the label ‘partial-birth abortion.’ This is a major victory for the pro-life cause.
Partial-birth abortion (as we have discussed in an earlier post), has been called by one author “constitutionally [...]Greeting Cards and Abortion
The latest in the abortion debate seems a bit bizarre. Exhale, a post-abortion counseling group, is now offering a variety of supportive E-cards to send to women who have recently undergone an abortion. The cards include attractive pictures of flowers or mountains. One version expresses the sentiment:
I think you’re strong, smart, thoughtful, and caring. I [...]Aborting the Less-Than-Perfect
During early fetal development, sometimes the esophagus fails to develop normally, a condition known as esophageal atresia. This happens once in about 3500 pregnancies, and doctors can frequently diagnose this condition by ultrasound prior to birth.
Except that sometimes the doctors are wrong.
In a teaching hospital in Florence, Italy, a woman had an abortion 22 weeks [...]How to Have an Argument (6)
Our March Podcast is an “argument” about abortion with Aaron Costerisan, our Center for Bioethics Fellow. We conduct this argument in two ways. First we break all the rules of respectful debate (see if you can spot our errors). Then we analyze our mistakes and try again. Hopefully, we do better the second time.
Our goal [...]
CedarEthics
On Bioethics and the Defense of Human Life
CedarEthics is proudly powered by WordPress.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
Off-center theme courtesy of Real Estate Online Marketing Coach