Author Archives: impact ethics

Looking at and Learning from SUPPORT’s Ethical Failures

Rory Kraft examines “a difference in the weighting of ethical standards.”

“Surrogacy” and Parental Licensing

Christine Overall argues that the failure to protect the interests of children born of “surrogacy” arrangements is a moral error, and that the prospective parents of such children must be screened and licensed.

We Are Egg Donors

Claire Burns, Raquel Cool and Sierra Falter co-founded We Are Egg Donors, the world’s first self-advocacy group for egg donors, run by egg donors. Here, Claire tells her story and shares her opinions about the egg trade in Canada.

Ethical Objections to Mitochondrial Replacement

Françoise Baylis  discusses the problems with creating children with three genetic parents.

SUPPORT and the Question of What It Means to Do Bioethics

Alice Dreger explains why the battle being waged among bioethicists over the SUPPORT trial is not just about research ethics. It’s also very much about the “profession” of Bioethics.