Category Reproduction
The implications of birth tourism
Hannah Rahim and Juliet Guichon argue that amendments to Canadian birthright citizenship should not be made until sufficient data on birth tourism’s implications have been collected.
A Trans Man’s Right to be Recognized as a Father
Celeste E. Orr criticizes the UK ruling that denies a trans father, Freddy McConnell, the right to be named as a father on his child’s birth certificate after giving birth.
Abortion in Canada: The election debates, the law and the reality
Martha Paynter outlines the facts about abortion in Canada.
The CRISPR Dream
Françoise Baylis shares a brief excerpt from her book Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing.
Is Prenatal Testing Discriminatory?
Chris Kaposy recommends that governments considering public funding for noninvasive prenatal testing take heed of the problem of discrimination against people with disabilities such as Down syndrome.
Genome-Edited Babies – A Cause for Concern
Shawn H.E. Harmon describes significant concerns with human genome editing that illustrate multiple failures of governance.
