Minors & Covid vaccination; possible black market in animal organs for transplant; health care providers experiencing racism; Dobbs & end-of-life care
July 13, 2022
Who Decides if a High-Risk Minor Gets a Covid Vaccine?
The Parents Disagreed
Kensey Dishman, a 13-year-old who suffered from asthma, was unvaccinated when she contracted Covid, and then died. Her divorced parents disagreed about whether she should have been vaccinated. This situation is as complicated as it is tragic, and it raises several legal and ethical issues, discussed in a new article in the Hastings Center Report. Read the article.
Illegal Market for Animal Organs for Human Transplants? Possible Addition to Illicit Human Organ Trafficking
As animal-to-human organ transplantation advances, some experts anticipate an increase in illicit trafficking of animal organs, adding to the longstanding international problem of human organ trafficking. “My concern is there may be a new black market for animal organs that have not been developed appropriately,” said Hastings Center research scholar KarenMaschke in an interview with CQ Researcher. Read more.
Racism Experienced by Health Care Professionals
End of Roe--Implications for End-of-Life Care From Hastings Bioethics Forum
Many BIPOC health care professionals reveal the ways in which their work culture and environments are “not diverse, equitable, inclusive, or anti-racist. Worse, they are often ignorantly or willfully hostile,” writes Pringl Miller in “Experiencing Racism: Health Care Professionals Speak Out.”
“Now that Roe has been overturned, other well-established precedents that rely on the logic that informed that decision, including those that govern decisions at life’s end, could be vulnerable,” writes Joseph Fins in “After Roe: What’s Next for End-of-Life Care?”
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