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The Hastings Center for Bioethics

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The death of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who was killed last month in an anti-immigration protest in Minneapolis, is, first and foremost, a devastating loss for his loved ones. But it has also shaken the nursing profession to the core.

People often encounter nurses at the bedside when they are ill or someone close to them is ill. But nurses also have a long history o...


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A patient is dying of cancer. She insists that she wants everything done, including CPR. The doctors fear that honoring her wishes will be futile and lead to multiple invasive, painful procedures. What if she tells the doctors, in private, that she doesn’t really want CPR, but that her family is pressuring her not to give up, and so, when they are present, she accedes to thei...


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On the threshold of the fifth year of full-scale war, we find ourselves in a reality where human life is questioned every day. In a country where the enemy systematically devalues the very concept of dignity — killing combatants, torturing and abducting civilians, deporting children, deliberately destroying hospitals and schools — the question “Do we still need bioethics?...


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There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement known as pronatalism looks to combat depopulation by encouraging people to have as many children as possible. But not just any kind of children.

W...


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