My sibling, my child
Professor Anna Smajdor looks at the ethical arguments thrown up by a TikTok star's desire to use her parent's embryos to have her own children...
Professor, University of Oslo
Professor Anna Smajdor was previously an Adviser to the Progress Educational Trust (PET) and is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Oslo. Previously, she was a Lecturer in Ethics at the University of East Anglia. She has a longstanding interest in the ethical and regulatory aspects of science, medicine and technology. She has written and spoken widely in connection with this research, as well as on broader philosophical and ethical questions. She is coauthor (with Baroness Ruth Deech) of 'From IVF to Immortality: Controversy in the Era of Reproductive Technology' (buy this book from Amazon UK), and of 'The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law' (with Professor Jonathan Herring and Robert Wheeler buy this book from Amazon UK).
Professor Anna Smajdor looks at the ethical arguments thrown up by a TikTok star's desire to use her parent's embryos to have her own children...
Dr Anna Smajdor explains the background to her recent paper which explored the ethics of using brain-dead women as gestational surrogates...
Dr Anna Smajdor responds to Dr John Appleby's argument for extending the 14-day limit, suggesting that not as much has changed in recent decades as he has assumed...
In January 2022, a heart transplant patient named David Bennett became world famous when it was reported that the 'donor' of the heart that had saved his life was – a pig...
Many of our legal and moral frameworks are based on natural distinctions...
A woman in India has given birth to twins. In itself, nothing particularly worth reporting there. Women give birth to babies all the time...
In the wake of a recent Mail on Sunday article, one might wonder if there are grounds for moving from a small-scale subsistence-type approach to the harvest, to a more industrial approach. No, we are not talking about vegetables here, but… sperm...
A person's death need no longer spell the end of his or her future reproductive possibilities. A dead or dying person can have their reproductive tissue removed to enable someone else to have a child...
Academics have written at length on the ethics of reproductive technologies, abortion and speculative possibilities such as reproductive cloning. But pregnancy itself up until recently has been a somewhat neglected topic...
The recent of creation of pig embryos with human DNA blurs the boundaries between animals and ourselves, giving us a chance to consider whether our moral categories are correct...
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