Tag: Bioethics

Modern healthcare can be curiously bloodless, focussing on wages, the expense of drugs, insurance and patients’ length of stay. Yet those intangibles that cannot be tallied up on spreadsheets—compassion, the dignity of persons and the spiritual dimension of healthcare—are truly at the heart of our profession, writes Brigid Meney.

A proposed bill would require a child born alive after an abortion to be given the same medical treatment or palliative care as a newborn

PM pushed 3-parent IVF

If Catholics are going to have a say and role in how medicine and healthcare are shaped in Australia, waiting till interested Catholics make...

Calls on the Federal Government to consider serious safety and ethical concerns of 'three parent IVF'.

Now we have 'artificial' human embryos and everyone is acclaiming this latest scientific development. But is this just another case of scientific progress outstripping moral and ethical reflection and reasoning?

Cuddle beds are an important initiative

Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli says research must respect the "dignity of unborn human life".

The “ethical tone” of a society is not determined by how it treats its most powerful, strongest, most affluent members, but by how it...

In either case, who should decide? On what basis? These are vexed and very difficult ethical issues.

Withdrawing artificial delivery of food and water to patients can be ethically complex It can be unethical to withdraw artificial hydration and nutrition and doing...

Experts say embryos should not be treated as property Experts and pro-life advocates are calling for embryos to be regarded as persons under the law...