Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Bioethics [Bioethics] 2021 Jun; Vol. 35 (5), pp. 465-472. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Apr 02.

Abstract:Pro-life advocates commonly argue that fetuses have the moral status of persons, and an accompanying right to life, a view most pro-choice advocates deny. A difficulty for this pro-life position has been Judith Jarvis Thomson's violinist analogy, in wh...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Bioethics [Bioethics] 2021 Nov; Vol. 35 (9), pp. 956-963. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Aug 28.

Abstract:In an article in this journal, Katherine Drabiak argues that green lighting genome editing of human embryos is contrary to "fundamental human rights law." According to the author, genome editing of human embryos violates what we should recognize as a f...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Bioethics [Bioethics] 2021 Oct; Vol. 35 (8), pp. 760-766. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jun 18.

Abstract:The judiciary is a key policy actor that is involved in deciding health rights and policy by intervening in the policy process through a variety of judicial mechanisms, yet the appropriate extent of its involvement remains contentious. Taking the compe...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):American journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics [Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet] 2021 Sep; Vol. 187 (3), pp. 329-336. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Apr 07.

Abstract:The last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), committed egregious violations of human rights, including torture assassinations and disappearance of 30,000 political dissidents as well as friends and relatives. This included hundreds of pregn...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Bioethics [Bioethics] 2021 Oct; Vol. 35 (8), pp. 725-733. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Aug 28.

Abstract:The obligations set by the individual right to health are likely to conflict, at least if states are its addressee, with the obligations set by the collective rights to self-determination that certain sub-state communities have (or should be recognized...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Bioethics [Bioethics] 2021 Oct; Vol. 35 (8), pp. 734-743. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Aug 20.

Abstract:Individual rights to healthcare (RTHCs) are increasingly common in law. Yet even plausible theoretical defences thereof raise a classic problem in the philosophy of rights: How do individual rights relate to 'collective' rights within the same domain? ...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Bioethics [Bioethics] 2021 Oct; Vol. 35 (8), pp. 752-759. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jul 13.

Abstract:While universal healthcare provisions are the global norm rather than the exception, the United States exists in the latter category. The paradox remains that while the right to health is both increasingly implemented and recognized on a global scale, ...

Publication Type:Editorial & Opinion

Source(s):Bioethics [Bioethics] 2021 Oct; Vol. 35 (8), pp. 721-724.

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):The Hastings Center report [Hastings Cent Rep] 2020 Nov; Vol. 50 (6), pp. 42-43.

Abstract:Madison Powers and Ruth Faden's book Structural Injustice: Power, Advantage, and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019), is an invaluable contribution to help us grasp the contemporary ills of our nonideal world. The authors' general claim is tha...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Bioethics [Bioethics] 2019 Jan; Vol. 33 (1), pp. 76-81. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Oct 20.

Abstract:Ectogenesis, or the use of an artificial womb to allow a foetus to develop, will likely become a reality within a few decades, and could significantly affect the abortion debate. We first examine the implications for Judith Jarvis Thomson's violinist a...