Category Law & Policy

Health Canada and RU-486: No More Foot-Dragging!

March 10, 2014 · by impact ethics · in Law & Policy · Leave a comment

Melissa Haussman suggests that Health Canada’s recent deliberations on the licensing of RU-486 are reminiscent of foot-dragging politics in the US.

February 19, 2014 · by impact ethics · in Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy · 3 Comments

Reuven Brandt questions the inevitability of slip sliding from physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia to non-voluntary euthanasia.

Jocelyn Downie clarifies the final draft of Bill 52 as Quebec legislators prepare to vote.

February 4, 2014 · by impact ethics · in Law & Policy, Science Funding · Leave a comment

Kelly Holloway argues that science is political and we would do well to recognize this in debating Canadian science policy.

Pamela White argues that ‘excess’ embryos potentially available for human pluripotent stem cell research should not be described as ‘unwanted’.