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- Nov 26, 2020
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Use of Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines is morally acceptable, say bishops
- Nov 25, 2020
While confusion has arisen in recent days in the media over “the moral permissibility” of using the COVID-19 vaccines just announced by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna, it is not “immoral to be vaccinated with them,” the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees said Nov. 23.
Bioethicist calls for right to ‘not be forced to die alone’
- Nov 19, 2020
Currently, COVID-19 social distancing restrictions at medical and care facilities often limit visitation rights for family and chaplains. One leading bioethicist insists this violates the right to ‘not be forced to die alone.’
Speaker: Legalizing assisted suicide allows state to decide who lives, who dies
- Nov 7, 2020
Currently, seven states and the District of Columbia allow assisted suicide — a physician-aided agreement to end a patient’s life based solely on the patient qualifying for death under state law — determined to be terminally ill or otherwise incapacitated in the state’s view.
Bioethics must recognize ‘we are made for love and friendship,’ scholar argues
- Oct 21, 2020
O. Carter Snead argues all law and policy is made for the sake and protection of persons. As such, at the foundation of every law is an animating premise about human identity and flourishing — an “anthropology,” in the basic and original sense of the term.
Bioethics questions emerge from experimental drug used in COVID-19 treatment
- Oct 11, 2020
The treatment that President Donald Trump has received to fight COVID-19 has turned the focus on an experimental drug that shows promise in combating the coronavirus but is raising ethical questions about the cell line that helped researchers develop the medicine.
French bishops rally Catholics against bioethics bill
- Oct 8, 2020
The French bishops’ conference has urged Catholics to join mass protests against a government-backed bioethics bill that would liberalize abortion and embryo research and allow in vitro fertilization for lesbians and single mothers.
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