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The Problem of Spontaneous Abortion: Is the Pro-Life Position Morally Monstrous?

A substantial proportion of human embryos spontaneously abort soon after conception, and ethicists have argued this is problematic for the pro-life view that a human embryo has the same moral status as an adult from conception. Firstly, if human embryos are our moral equals, this entails spontaneous abortion is one of humanity's most important problems, and it is claimed this is absurd, and a reductio of the moral status claim. Secondly, it is claimed that pro-life advocates do not act as if spontaneous abortion is important, implying they are failing to fulfill their moral obligations. We rep

The Neurostructure of Morality and the Hubris of Memory Manipulation.

Neurotechnologies that promise to dampen (via pharmacologicals), disassociate (via electro-convulsive therapy), erase (via deep brain stimulation), and replace (via false memory creation) unsavory episodic memories are no longer the subject of science fiction. They have already arrived, and their funding suggests that they will not disappear anytime soon. In light of their emergence, this essay examines the neurostructure of normative morality to clarify that memory manipulation, which promises to take away that which is bad in human experience, also removes that which enables human beings to

'To arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time': Heidegger, phenomenology, the way human beings first appear in the world, and fresh perspectives on the abortion debate.

Intellectual stalemate in the abortion debate can be traced in part to its being framed as a standoff between religion and secular philosophy. While the former is thought to generate a broadly 'pro-life' position, the latter is associated with more 'pro-choice' thinking. This essay attempts to break free of this framing by criticising the philosophy informing 'pro-choice' positions, but not by resorting immediately to religious arguments but rather by drawing upon a rival philosophical tradition--the movement within twentieth and twenty-first Continental philosophy which was and is phenomenolo

Искусственный интеллект в педиатрической нейрорадиологии: текущий ландшафт, проблемы и будущие направления.

В настоящем обзоре содержится информация о нынешнем ландшафте искусственного интеллекта (АИ) в области педиатрической и эмбриональной нейрорадиологии, критическая оценка текущей практики, барьеров на пути к клиническому усыновлению и будущего потенциала. Мы искали рецензированные исследования за последнее десятилетие, сфокусировавшись на сегментации изображений, обнаружении повреждений, классификации, прогнозировании и поддержке клинического решения при педиатрической съемке мозга. Особое внимание было уделено уникальным педиатрическим факторам, таким, как развитие мозга и нехватка данных. Мет

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… Ursin F Timmermann C Steger F Explicability of artificial intelligence in radiology: is a fifth bioethical principle conceptually necessary? … Bioethics 2021 10.1111/bioe.12918 34251687 Ursin F, Timmermann C, Steger F (2021) Explicability of artificial intelligence in radiology: is a fifth bioethical principle conceptually necessary? Bioethics. 10.1111/bioe.12918 34251687 71. …

Chemotherapy-Related Differences in Cognitive Functioning and Their Biological Predictors in Patients with Multiple Myeloma.

The paper presents a study on the changes in cognitive functioning in patients undergoing chemotherapy with diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM). The aim of the study was to answer the following two main research questions: Does the treatment stage differentiate the functioning of cognitive processes in patients with diagnosed MM and to what extent? Is it possible to treat biological factors (TNF-α, IL-6, IL-10, and BDNF) as predictors of patients' cognitive functioning? The patients were examined twice, before the treatment and after 4-6 cycles of chemotherapy. Selected neuropsychological research

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… The research protocol was approved by a bioethical committee appropriate for the institution where the research took place (no. KE-0254/253/2016). … Institutional Review Board Statement The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the Institutional Review Board (or Ethics Committee) of the Bioethics Committee at the Medical University of Lublin (protocol code KE-0254/253/2016 and date of approval …

Abortion and Infant Mortality: Termination Does Not Prevent Death.

Alison Gemmill et al. claim that infant mortality in Texas increased following its 2021 abortion restrictions, and several sources reported that abortion restrictions harm infants. This is misleading. Gemmill et al.'s findings show that infant deaths increased primarily because abortion for "congenital anomalies" decreased, and a subset of those subjects died in infancy. In other words, infant mortality rose because fetal mortality fell. By analogy, one can reduce teenage deaths by causing deaths before age thirteen, but this does not save lives. Likewise, abortion restrictions may lead to mor

Autonomy as the sole justification for assisted death?

The most common justification for euthanasia and/or assisted suicide (EAS) appeals to the public's compassion for the medically ill. But a medical suffering-based EAS regime raises equality concerns - from those who do not want EAS but resent being deemed to have lives not worth living, from those who find death by EAS more accessible than basic resources that would help them go on living, and from those who want EAS but are deemed to have the wrong kind of suffering. Making EAS illegal for all would solve the equality problem, but many instead seek to ground EAS on autonomy only, with no othe

Exploring the Ethics of Creating Chimeric 'Monkey-Human' Embryos: Could Xenotransplantation, the Treatment of Anencephalic Infants, or Synthetic Human Embryos Provide Insights?

Induced human extended pluripotent stem cells (hEPSC) have been injected into monkey blastocysts to create chimeric embryos. Chimera research is a scientific technique which seeks to develop human organs for transplantation, but it has raised concerns regarding human cells contributing to the brain formation of nonhuman animals. This article considered whether brain development should guide ethical considerations on chimera research by investigating the morality of terminating live anencephalic infants to procure their organs. It found that identifying the presence or absence of a human biolog

The Fertility Fix: the Boom in Facial-matching Algorithms for Donor Selection in Assisted Reproduction in Spain.

This article reads the uptake of facial-matching algorithms by fertility clinics in Spain through the lens of 'the fertility fix': a software fix to the social reconfiguration of kinship and a fixed capital investment made by competing fertility companies and firms. 'The fertility fix' is proposed as a critical, ethical lens through which to situate algorithmic facial-matching in assisted reproduction in the context of the racial politics of the face and phenotype and the spatial politics of market expansion. While an 'infertility crisis' is often mentioned when explaining the growth of the as

Public Health England and Co-Production with the Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme.

As the new Cell-free DNA (Cf-DNA) prenatal screening test for Down syndrome was being introduced into the UK's fetal anomaly screening program, Down syndrome charities had an opportunity to participate. An experience of co-production where we were the minority voice then followed. This paper explores that process and our experience as a charity. Institutional and societal structures meant that it was difficult to be heard and a significant amount of bias was noted within the program. Consequently, our viewpoints were often considered and then dismissed. However, at times we were listened to, a

Responsibility Arguments in Defence of Abortion: When One is Morally Responsible for the Creation of a Fetus.

I argue against responsibility arguments that offer a defence of abortion even on the assumption that the fetus is a person. I focus on argumentation originally offered by Judith Jarvis Thomson and then later defended by David Boonin. I offer thought experiments meant to show that, under certain conditions, one bears moral responsibility for creating a fetus. I then offer a positive argument for when one is morally responsible for the creation of a fetus. This argument relies on the presence of other forms of sex that reasonably approximate the goods of penile-vaginal intercourse. Given the pr

Killing and Impairing Fetuses.

Could it be that if a fetus is not a person abortion is still immoral? One affirmative answer comes in the form of 'The Impairment Argument', which utilizes 'The Impairment Principle' to argue that abortion is immoral even if fetuses lack personhood. I argue 'The Impairment Argument' fails. It is not adequately defended from objections, and abortion is, in fact, a counterexample to the impairment principle. Furthermore, it explains neither what the wrong-making features of abortion are nor what features of fetuses ground their supposed moral significance. By presupposing the fetus lacks person

The right to choose to abort an abortion: should pro-choice advocates support abortion pill reversal?

Abortion pill reversal (APR) treatment aims to halt an initiated medical abortion, wherein a pregnant woman takes progesterone after having taken the first of the two consecutive abortion pills, typically because she has changed her mind and no longer wants to abort the pregnancy. It is a controversial intervention, generally supported by those identifying as pro-life and opposed by those identifying as pro-choice. This paper examines whether, in principle, those identifying with the pro-choice view should support APR. We firstly examine the commitments of the pro-choice stance. We then briefl

Elective amputation and neuroprosthetic limbs.

This paper explores the impact that developments in the field of neuroprosthetics will have on the ethical viability of healthy limb amputation, specifically in cases of Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID). Developments in the field have meant that the prospect of such artificial components matching the utility of their biological counterparts is now a possibility. As such, arguments against the provision of therapeutic, healthy limb amputation, which are grounded in the perceived resultant harm of disability, need to be reconsidered. Drawing on philosophical insights, as well as the field

Why Inconsistency Arguments Matter.

Abortion opponents are sometimes accused of having inconsistent beliefs, actions, and/or priorities. If they were consistent, they would regard spontaneous abortions to be a greater moral tragedy, or they would adopt more frozen in vitro fertilization embryos, or they would support more robust social welfare programmes for children and single parents, or so on and so forth. Nicholas Colgrove, Bruce Blackshaw, and Daniel Rodger have recently argued that such inconsistency arguments 'fail en masse.' They propose three main objections: The Diversity Objection, The Other Beliefs Objection, and The

Moral women, immoral technologies? Romanian women's perceptions of assisted reproductive technologies versus adoption.

The present study explored how Romanian women perceive in-vitro fertilization (IVF), surrogacy, and adoption as alternative pathways to traditional parenthood. Previous studies suggested that both men and women generally prefer a full genetic link, followed by a partial genetic link and, finally, no genetic link (i.e. adoption). We explored these findings by testing a series of predictors in a sample of women aged 18-45-years. We found that adoption was the most preferred option among Romanian women, while surrogacy was the last. Older women, with children, rather non-religious, and in a stead

GnRHa ('Puberty Blockers') and Cross Sex Hormones for Children and Adolescents: Informed Consent, Personhood and Freedom of Expression.

Ethical concerns have been raised about routine practice in paediatric gender clinics. We discuss informed consent and the risk of iatrogenesis in the prescribing of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues (GnRHas) and cross sex hormones to children and adolescents respectively. We place those clinical concerns in a wider societal context and invite consideration of two further relevant ethical domains: competing rights-based claims about male and female personhood; and freedom of expression about those claims. When reflecting on the assessment and medicalization of children and adolescents p