Essay: Palliative care for babies following a diagnosis of lethal fetal abnormality
For many clinicians working in obstetrics, fetal medicine and genetics, termination seems to be the rational, obvious, decisive “solution” whenContinue Reading
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Lecture: Who cares if we live?
Rapid advances in reproductive and genetic technology are transforming the way new human beings can be created, selected and modified.Continue Reading
Talk: Caring for the weakest – a paediatrician’s perspective on abortion and neonatal care
When the Abortion Act was passed in 1967, less than 10% of babies born before 28 weeks would survive. Today,Continue Reading
Article: Medical paternalism and the fetus
In 2001 I published an academic article on the ethics of abortion in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Abstract AContinue Reading
Essay: Ethical dilemmas and compassionate responses to abortion
In my own quest for a Christian understanding of the unborn child, it is not only the theological and biblicalContinue Reading