Not All Objectification Is Sexual: The Return of the Fetal Container
PJW Note: This post originally appeared on October 28, 2013. Yet, as a recent Op-ed in The New York Times, “Pregnant, and No Civil Rights,” clearly demonstrates, the problems Reiheld addresses have...
View Article“Selling U.S. Citizenship”??
“Obama Administration Allows Fertility Clinics to Sell US Citizenship” cries one website.[1] At issue is, allegedly, not only infertility clinics making big bucks selling U.S. citizenship for babies...
View ArticleRape on College Campuses in the U.S.
In George Cukor’s brilliant 1940 comedy The Philadelphia Story, Tracey Lord has divorced the love of her life, a recovering alcoholic who is a rich, Philadelphia blueblood like herself, and she is...
View Article“Femicide and Impunity: A humanitarian crisis in Central America, and a...
This is a reposting of an article from La Via Campensina: International Peasant’s Movement. Please visit their website for more information. El Salvador has had the highest rate of femicide in the...
View ArticleBioethics in Catastrophe?
Guest post by Melinda Hall (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stetson University) In “Human Engineering and Climate Change,” bioethicists S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, and Rebecca Roache argue...
View ArticleJustice Ginsburg on Reproductive Freedom
Last night on her show, Rachel Maddow aired an interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg in which RBG was asked about the future of reproductive freedom in the United States. Because of this Court’s adherence...
View ArticleA Fictive Reality: Science Fiction, Dystopia, and Assisted Reproduction
Guest post by Alana Cattapan (York University, Dalhousie University) The use of science fiction to make sense of reproductive technologies is nothing new. As new advances in assisted reproduction make...
View ArticleOn the Alzheimer’s Report
I saw a lot of surprise on social media about the Alzheimer’s Society report including that data that only 45% of patients and their caregivers are informed of their Alzheimer’s diagnosis. News reports...
View ArticleGender and Inequality: Panel at LSE’s day-long engagement with Thomas Piketty
I was back in London on Monday for a day-long symposium at the LSE on Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century—this time, with Piketty in attendance. At least, he was there after his late Eurostar train...
View ArticleA Copernican Revolution in Nutrition?
Recently, Truthout published an article by Jeff Ritterman, M.D., about the impact of misdirected nutritional advice on our nation’s health. According to Ritterman, U.S. dietary guidelines formulated in...
View Article“From Jackie and Me: A Plea for Opt-Out Organ Donation”
By Hilde Lindemann (Michigan State University): Three weeks ago, my dear friend Jackie, a internationally recognized bioethicist in her fifties who lives in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, went to bed with what...
View Article“Inspired by Hobby Lobby, a Father Tries to Deny His Daughters Birth Control...
With the usual disclaimer that I am not a lawyer, I don’t see how the plaintiff in this case has a leg to stand on: Missouri Republican state Rep. Paul Joseph Wieland does not want his three daughters...
View ArticleGuns versus Dildos: The Ultimate Texas Showdown
Here in Texas, everyone is up in arms (pun intended) about the new campus carry law, which, starting August 2016, will allow persons with a concealed handgun permit to carry their concealed handgun...
View ArticleThe Alarming Prevalence of Toxic Ingredients in Cosmetics and Hygiene Products
No industry has aligned itself more closely with the breast cancer movement than the cosmetics industry. It’s long flooded the market with pink ribbon products: pink ribbon lipstick, pink ribbon nail...
View ArticleNew Developments in International Surrogacy
Some people call it “reproductive tourism” while others prefer the more neutral “cross-border reproductive healthcare.” Whatever it is called, surrogacy arrangements for infertile couples are now a...
View Article“Just Modeling?: The Modeling Industry, Eating Disorders, and the Law”
The University of Toronto Press blog is currently featuring an interview with Galya Hildesheimer and Hemda Gur-Arie (both at the School of Law at the Peres Academic Center, Rehovot, Israel), co-authors...
View Article“Why Some Men Are Above the Law”
Martha C. Nussbaum on sexual assault, celebrity culture, and the law: Bill Cosby has been finally charged with sexual assault. For anyone who has followed the case, one striking aspect is how late an...
View Article“New York Just Created a Revolutionary New Family-Leave Policy”
The paid leave program will cover full-time and part-time employees. There will be no exemptions for small businesses. And to take advantage of the program, you only have to have been employed by the...
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