Anscombe Bioethics
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Bioethics Centre

Press Statements


Mandatory vaccines for care home workers ‘profoundly unethical’

21 June 2021
Bioethicists condemn relaxation of 14-day embryo experimentation limit

3 June 2021
Bioethicist calls for moratorium on human-primate interspecies embryos

16 April 2021
Bioethicist warns against the dangers of “vaccine passports” and vaccinating children for the benefit of adults

29 March 2021
Pippa Knight: A deeply flawed court decision

4 Feb 2021
Depriving people of food and fluids despite their previously expressed religious beliefs

12 Jan 2021
Proposed amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill in relation to abortion

3 July 2020
Opt out organ donation system in England

20 May 2020
Appointment to the Pontifical Academy for Life

27 Jan 2020
Forced abortion is not the mark of a humane society

24 Jun 2019
Protecting the lives of the most vulnerable

31 Jul 2018
On the Irish Abortion Referendum 2018

29 May 2018
Alfie Evans: A brief statement of the fundamental ethical principles

2 Feb 2018
Appointments to the Pontifical Academy for Life

15 Aug 2017
Editing human embryos: Unethical research with eugenic goals

3 Aug 2017
Charlie Gard: The end of legal proceedings

24 Jul 2017
Charlie Gard: Doing the right thing for the right reasons

5 Jul 2017
Artificial Wombs

27 Apr 2017
Conference on Abortion and Disability: Warnings from recent history and calls for life-affirming alternatives

20 Feb 2017
A note on "mitochondrial donation"

15 Dec 2016
Cryonics: A Catholic Viewpoint

21 Nov 2016