Author Archives: impact ethics

Dignity and Adolescents’ Autonomy

Julien Brisson argues for an autonomy-based deontological approach to the topic of adolescent access to sexual and reproductive health services.

Pandemic Individualism

James Dwyer examines appeals to individual liberty in the pandemic.

Lost and Won: A challenge of the UK law that allows discrimination

Colette Lloyd argues that a recent challenge to United Kingdom’s Abortion Act is about discrimination, not abortion.

Vaccine Skepticism is Becoming Irrelevant

Chris Kaposy acknowledges the ethical justification for coercive COVID-19 vaccine policies, while also recognizing the danger of ceasing to view vaccine skeptics as thinking subjects.

Unmuddying the waters of the law and MAiD for mental illness

Jocelyn Downie rebuts misleading claims about the law and medical assistance in dying for mental illness advanced by psychiatrists Mark Sinyor and Ari Zaretsky in a recent Op-Ed.