Implications for Disability Justice, Prenatal Screening
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade “is a disability justice issue—but not in the way that you might think,” writes Liz Bowen, the Rice Family Fellow in Bioethics and the Humanities at The Hastings Center. Read her essay in Hastings Bioethics Forum.
The decision will constrain prospective parents’ choices following prenatal screening. “Testing itself won’t be banned. But the choices that prospective parents have will be dramatically undermined,” says Hastings Center director of research Josephine Johnston in an interview with Politico. Read the interview. (Scroll to “Fetal Diagnosis Post-Roe.”)
Clinical Trials of Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants Ethical and Scientific Considerations
The man who received the first pig heart transplant earlier this year lived for two months, a sign that the animal organ could sustain human life. But we can’t know for certain from this one transplant how long humans can live with a pig organ or if there will be serious side effects. “At some point, you have to go into human trials, says Hastings Center research scholar Karen Maschke in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Read more.
Anti-Black Racism, Health, & Health Care Webinar Envisions a Path Forward
How should bioethics lead in efforts to remedy racial injustice and health inequities in the United States? What are some silver linings? These were among the questions discussed in a recent Hastings Center webinar with the editors of a recent Hastings Center special report in conversation with Michele Goodwin, a Hastings Center board member and fellow, who is Chancellor’s Professor and Director of the Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. The event and the report were supported by The Greenwall Foundation. Watch the event.
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