The National Center for Transgender Equality estimates that between one-quarter of 1 percent and 1 percent of the U.S. population is transgender – their gender identity or expression differs from the biological features they were born with. That’s 750,000 to 3 million people in the United States. Lately, though, more of them are going public [...]
Each day countless Americans and their families face the decisions and dilemmas that arise as people with serious diseases and injuries move toward death in a nation with: a costly, fragmented and highly technological medical system; an extremely diverse religious and spiritual character; and a very litigious legal culture. Disputes occurring at the end of [...]
March 31 will mark the second anniversary of Terri Schiavo’s death, which plunged the nation into a heated debate over who has the right to end a life. While the intensity of the debate has lessened since the days leading up to Schiavo’s death, it continues as patients, families, physicians, ethicists, legislators, judges and clergy [...]
Terminally ill patients have the right to refuse treatment. Do they also have the right to demand treatment with unproven experimental drugs if no approved treatments exist? This question is gaining increasing attention as patient advocates press for a legal right to unapproved drugs and critics counter that such access would hamper and even halt [...]
Public health experts are forcefully criticizing U.S. policy for limiting access to reproductive and sexual health care in the developing world. As some religious leaders call for a broadening of how conservative Christians respond to AIDS abroad, health experts are blaming deteriorating health in the Third World on what they see as the Bush administration’s [...]
UPDATED APR. 18, 2007: The United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday (April 18, 2007) that the federal law banning the so-called “partial-birth abortion” procedure does not violate a woman’s right to an abortion. The ruling was considered a victory for abortion opponents. The procedure, usually carried out in the second or third trimester of [...]
An organization of researchers called Korean Christians in Science will examine issues raised by the Korean stem-cell scandal at a conference Sept. 8-10. The event is a sign of the enormous growth of Christianity among Korean-Americans, the developing interplay between religious ethics and science, and the increasing interconnectedness of cultures around the world. The conference [...]
Six animal rights activists are on trial in New Jersey on criminal charges of conspiracy, interstate stalking and harassment against a company that performs tests on live animals. The trial is the latest skirmish in the explosive battle over using animals in medical research – which is required by law for pharmaceuticals and which many [...]
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