The Balking Dead: the undying effort to repeal and replace the ACA’s attempt...
Editor’s Note: Scroll to the bottom of this blog entry by Rory Kraft for a list of his prior blog articles on attempts to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, AKA Obamacare, as well as other...
View ArticleWho Should Be Responsible for Environment, Health, and Politics: Detroit and...
The long-time reader of IJFAB Blog, and alert bioethicist who follows the news, will remember the Flint water crisis. As numerous investigative news articles–and even at least one news comedy...
View ArticleIJFAB Blog series: Responses to the Trump Administration’s policies on...
As you may have heard, the Trump Administration has announced an expanded policy on conscientious objection in medicine, with institutional support in the form of a Department of Health and Human...
View ArticleObjection! Sustained
Editor’s Note: This blog entry by special guest author Dr. M. Sara Rosenthal is part of our miniseries on conscientious objection including the Editor’s introduction and blog entries by Ruth Groenhout,...
View ArticleIndividualization, Access, and Bias: ACOG issues new consensus call for...
I am struck by what health care disparities and the lived experiences of postpartum patients mean for implementation of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s new guidelines on postpartum...
View ArticlePersons as Producers: Why bioethics should be concerned with work culture and...
Today, May 1, is known in the labor rights movement as May Day or International Workers’ Day. It celebrates the dignity of laboring humans and the right to be seen as and live as fully human. I want to...
View ArticleTransgender residents of Wisconsin sue the State for Medicaid coverage of...
As you may know, Medicaid is the US government health care safety net program for low-income Americans. While both the federal government and each state government contribute funds, the states make the...
View Article“I keep telling you… I can’t get in the building”
In this recent article from The Guardian, Frances Ryan (who reports frequently on disability issues) draws attention to the following Kafka-esque situation. Disabled people in the UK whose eligibility...
View ArticleHow to Fail Chronic Pain Patients
An article recently posted by NPR describes the latest solution to a crisis of which usually only one side is well-represented: the well-publicized fear of opioid abuse versus the quieter, yet...
View ArticleFounding member of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network, Brazilian...
Yesterday, The Guardian reported on the dire straits afflicting Debora Diniz in Brazil. Diniz, a founding member of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network (FABnet) which birthed IJFAB and...
View ArticleWestern University Researchers Release Report Advocating for More “Time to...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This blog entry comes to us from Heather Stewart, M.A. Stewart is a Ph.D. candidate at Western University and is a member of the Time to Attach Research Team. Here, she speaks about the...
View ArticleArgentina’s legislature passes bill legalizing abortion
As 2020 comes to a close, we have news out of Argentina that decades of feminist pro-choice activism have come to fruition: the Senate has passed a bill that came through the House recently,...
View ArticleMAiD and IJFAB: Why Bioethical Discourse is Not Endorsement
In the past few months, a number of posts and Tweets from the Biopolitical Philosophy blog have stated that the International Journal of Feminist Bioethics (IJFAB) has ‘promoted’ medical assistance in...
View ArticleObstructing access to gender affirming care in Missouri: the Missouri...
UPDATE: A number of advocacy groups have sued to prevent the rule from going into effect, including the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and Southampton Community Healthcare in St. Louis. The...
View ArticleIn The News: Trans Health is a Local and Global Issue
2024 is kicking off with… a lot of proposed anti-trans legislation and policies. Aspects of anti-trans sentiment and action can feel very particular to local, regional, or national politics and...
View ArticleNew Articles of Interest
Check out these recently published articles likely to be of interest to feminist bioethicists! Siobhan de Lange, Dee Muller, & Chloe Dafkin, “Biomedical research on autism in low- and middle-income...
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