medical ethics
What should the US Catholic bishops talk about at their meeting in Florida?
By Thomas Reese — June 6, 2023
(RNS) — Topics foremost in the public’s mind are not on the agenda: the war in Ukraine, the treatment of transgender people, global warming, the culture wars over public education, economic inequality, political divisions and the rise of hate groups.
When is it ‘a time to die’?
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 28, 2023
(RNS) — A new documentary and podcast ask the question: When is it enough?
SC medical ethics law prompts concerns re: LGBTQ health care
By James Pollard — June 22, 2022
(AP) — South Carolina joins several other states that have moved recently to protect 'conscience' objections for medical providers.
Attacks on religious health care providers keep on coming
By Charles C. Camosy — March 28, 2022
(RNS) — A regard for the sanctity of life shouldn't count against someone sworn to save lives.
Jeannie Gaffigan hosts panel urging Catholics to get COVID-19 vaccines
By Renée Roden and Alejandra Molina — September 1, 2021
(RNS) — Gaffigan collaborated with Loyola Marymount University to host a panel on Tuesday (Aug. 31) directed specifically at Catholic audiences and featuring several Catholic medical experts.
Alta Fixsler, 2-year-old on life support, has a visa to come to US for treatment. Will UK court let her go?
By Avi Shafran — July 29, 2021
(RNS) — The case, reduced to its essence, pits current medical opinion against Alta’s parents' Hasidic Jewish faith.
Who gets to unplug the pope?
By Thomas Reese — July 27, 2021
(RNS) — Even a pope needs a medical directive.
Will those suffering late-stage dementia be the next to be called less than human?
By Charles C. Camosy — July 15, 2021
(RNS) — Attitudes toward brain death are already being extended to those with late-stage dementia and beyond.
‘Silence is not an option’: Harold Braswell on Canada’s new assisted suicide law
By Charles C. Camosy — March 12, 2021
(RNS) — The law, passed this week, extends the right to physician-assisted suicide (PAS) to disabled people.
Faith and the COVID-19 vaccine: ‘I’m a member of a community with duties’
By Julie Schonfeld — February 9, 2021
(RNS) — Rabbi Elliot Dorff, a theologian and ethicist specializing in medical ethics, talks about what we owe each other when it comes to being vaccinated.
COVID vaccines are moral to use, say ethicists, Catholic bishops
By Bob Smietana — November 25, 2020
(RNS) — ‘We have seen the polls looking at how many people are willing to take the vaccines and we’re very concerned the number is much lower than it should be,’ said an ethicist at the Christian Medical & Dental Association.
Ration health care? Yes. Abandon our humanity? No.
By Charles C. Camosy — March 24, 2020
(RNS) — The claim that ‘we’re at war’ is a mixed blessing. We need to ramp up our efforts to fight this invisible enemy, but historically being at war means violating our most fundamental values.
Making an idol of brain-injured patients
By John J. Paris and Kevin Wildes — February 10, 2020
(RNS) — A failure to appreciate the historical context of the ‘sanctity of life’ has led some to distort its meaning.
Women say goodbye to sweet home Alabama
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 16, 2019
(RNS) — I will not be silent as the states that enslaved the bodies of African Americans now seek to enslave the bodies of women.
A reminder why gene-edited embryos are a terrible idea
By Charles C. Camosy — November 30, 2018
(RNS) — Fifty years ago, a Harvard Medical School committee gave us a definition of brain death that changed how we value human life. This week the school's dean showed the same incaution regarding gene-edited babies.
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