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Bioethics institute urges U.K. to review parental rights of very ill kids

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 08:50:39 -0400

A Catholic bioethics institute urged the U.K. government to speed up a review of the rights of the parents of sick children after doctors ended the life of a brain-damaged boy against the wishes of his parents.

Catholic bioethicist: COVID-19 vaccine could be question of conscience

cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:38:33 -0400

MANCHESTER, England -- A vaccine produced with the help of cells derived from aborted fetuses could present an ethical dilemma for Catholics and others opposed to abortion, said a senior researcher from a Catholic bioethics institute.

Pandemic putting ethics to the test

mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:00:00 -0400

In a crisis, hard decisions have to be made.

When there aren’t enough ventilators or Intensive Care Unit beds for everyone who needs one, it��Ƶapp left to medical ethicists to provide guidance to clinicians faced with dire decisions about who lives and who dies.

How far can advance care directive go?

mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 07:00:00 -0500

A bioethicist who spent decades urging Catholics to plan for their last days by naming a substitute decision maker in an advance care directive is now incensed at the idea the government will likely allow the directive to be used to invoke euthanasia.

Rise in organ donations raises ethical issues

cna-ewtn@catholicregister.org (CNA/EWTN News) — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 16:10:52 -0500

OTTAWA -- Increasing numbers of people killed by euthanasia are supplying a “boon” for organ transplant surgeries in Canada, according to an Ottawa newspaper. But politicians and ethicists say the practice is “rather horrifying” and raises questions of “coercion.”

Bioethicist responds to Japan's approval of human-animal hybrid research

Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:57:49 -0400

WASHINGTON D.C. (CNA) - The Japanese government is expected to approve funding for a research project, led by stem cell scientist Hiromitsu Nakauchi, to use stem cells to create animal embryos that contain human cells.

Dr. Barrie deVeber, founder of bioethics institute, dies at 90

crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:07:15 -0500

If it was up to Dr. Barrie deVeber, his name would not be on the institution dedicated to researching all aspects of human life.

Gene-editing human embryos 'a train wreck of a thing to do', ethicist says

cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 09:32:12 -0500

WASHINGTON – The revelation in late November that a Chinese researcher had edited genes in human embryos and then implanted them in a woman was "a train wreck of a thing to do," said an ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

St. Elizabeth Health Care sending message of HOPE

mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:52:31 -0400

When Archbishop Fergus P. McEvay started the St. Elizabeth Nurses in Toronto 110 years ago, it was all about the beginning of life. Four qualified midwives were stationed in the city��Ƶapp poorer neighbourhoods to deliver babies, ensure the mother��Ƶapp health and then get those babies baptized.

Data collection system to monitor doctor-induced deaths is flawed, experts warn

mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:24:36 -0400

New federal government rules to monitor euthanasia and assisted suicide are opaque and weak at a time when legally induced deaths are rising at alarming levels, warn several organizations.