Women are being spat on outside my abortion clinic. Where is the safe zone we’re legally entitled to? | Michaela McDaid | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

We are excited to announce we are recruiting a new Co-Editor-in Chief to work with us at NGS. Further information can be found here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recruit… #NGS #NewGeneticsandSociety

A moment that changed me: I donated my kidney to a stranger – and felt like a failure | Life and style | The Guardian theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/a…

Vapes should be sold behind the counter like cigarettes, says BMA | Vaping | The Guardian theguardian.com/society/articl…

Today is BC Camplight's 20th anniversary. Unreal. Thanks for making me the most incrementally slow success story in history. Biggest chapter coming 2025.

Man who sent girl to Iraq for FGM jailed in legal first for England and Wales | Female genital mutilation (FGM) | The Guardian theguardian.com/society/2024/o…

Why everything you think about living to 100 might be wrong | Ageing | The Guardian theguardian.com/science/2024/o…

How long do elevator ride commonly take? And how long does one ordinarily stay in a conference room?

Whew, bit of a 🎤 drop by @troyheff in this paper tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Wage theft!

US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’ | Genetics | The Guardian theguardian.com/science/2024/o…

What is genomic prediction and can embryos really be ‘screened for IQ’? | Genetics | The Guardian theguardian.com/science/2024/o…

From fashion to the food industry: 11 ways that weight-loss drugs have changed the world | Diets and dieting | The Guardian theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

‘It’s natural, it’s real, it’s raw’: the rise of birth photography | Childbirth | The Guardian theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

37th European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine & Health Care, 'Bioethics & philosophy of medicine after COVID' to be held in Manchester CSEP Manchester 13-16/8/25 Call for abstracts due 1/3/25 send abstracts to: Prof Bert Gordijn, [email protected]

Abortion is legal in Australia, but doctors say an 'unspoken ban' is robbing women in regional and rural areas of the right to choose abc.net.au/news/2024-10-3… via ABC Australia

Given it is a conscience vote, all MPs are imposing their personal beliefs, it is what is being asked of them: Shabana Mahmood should not impose her religious beliefs on others, says peer | Assisted dying | The Guardian theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

If the same thinking applies to multi millionaires, say those with half a billion, then it would indeed seem there is something wrong with billionaires.

Is there an analogy to be drawn between decriminalising women who end their own pregnancies and decriminalising suicide? In both cases assistance remains a criminalised. Significant differences is the act, motivation etc.

Given both options leave capitalism intact I am not sure this can tell us anything much.

New paper in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics: Conscientious Objection and the Provision of Abortion at Late(r) Stages of Pregnancy cjb-rcb.ca/index.php/cjb-…