Bich Nguyen"Across the country, doctors accused of inseminating their patients with their own sperm — without the patients’ consent — rarely face legal consequences. While at least 50 such cases have become public in the United States, few perpetrators have faced criminal charges. Few were forced to stop practicing."
Alan RegenbergCheck out the trailer for season 2 of playing god? - A podcast by the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of #Bioethics | Season 2 premieres May 19 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coming-soon-playing-god-season-2/id1706337131?i=1000767329604
Johns Hopkins Bioethics#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Healthcare AI Policy Perspectives, Designing Consent Processes: Older Adults Who May Lack Decisional Capacity, Human Research Protections During Emergencies, Managing Major Disruptions, Critical Bioethics, School Nurses, + More https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethics-in-the-academic-literature-10945008?e=53613b03f0
MissConstruePolycystic ovary syndrome (#PCOS) was officially renamed Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (#PMOS) on May 12, 2026,. This change, published in The #Lancet and announced at the European Congress of Endocrinology, followed a rigorous 14-year global consensus process. The update aims to reduce stigma, improve diagnosis, and accurately reflect the condition's complex, multi-system nature beyond just the ovaries.
This is huge news for women, as it’s estimated that up to a third of women experience some PMOS symptoms. The previous nomenclature meant that many women were not being diagnosed correctly. As a matter of #bioethics of women’s treatment, this is a big sea change. As to how it changes medical professional’s approach, we will have to determine.
The Lancet:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00717-8/fulltext
The Endocrine Society: https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2026/pcos-name-change
#Bioethics Seminar TODAY, Noon - Farr Curlin, MD, “Why Clinical Ethicists Should Draw on Their Personal Values and Encourage Patients to do What the Ethicist Believes Is Right” Open to all, join in person, lunch provided, Feinstein Hall, @johnshopkinssph https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethics-seminar-10944500
50 Years After Quinlan: The Woman Who Changed American Medicine. by M. Sara Rosenthal | Hastings Center #Bioethics Forum Essay https://www.thehastingscenter.org/50-years-after-quinlan-the-woman-who-changed-american-medicine/
#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Evidence Supporting Early Phase Trials? eConsent vs Traditional Consent, Ultra-Rare Therapy Development, Protective Precautionary Principle, Limits of Beneficence, Double Bind of Conversational AI, + More https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethics-in-the-academic-literature-10944734?e=53613b03f0
Update: Supremes give women one more week to access healthcare.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/04/nx-s1-5810510/supreme-court-mifepristone-appeals-telehealth
#Bioethics Seminar - Farr Curlin, MD, "Why Clinical Ethicists Should Encourage Patients to do What the Ethicist Believes is Right" - Mon, May 11, Noon EDT. Open to all, attend in person, lunch provided. Feinstone Hall, @johnshopkinssph - link for more info: https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethics-seminar-10944499?e=53613b03f0
I’ve had to erase a long expletive chain multiple times as that is what wants to come out of my fingers. Suffice it to say there are few Old Gods I have left unbothered by my requests to suck the entire 5th circuit back into the Nether Depths they came from.
The odds of the XtianNationalists who run the Supreme Court staying or overturning this ruling are very slim. Women are well and truly fucked right now.
So, there’s a couple things to be done.
If Blue state, fight like hell to get abortion enshrined in your state constitution.
If Red State, learn about Jane’s Collective.
If man, get reversible vasectomy.
Pregnancy can be more of a death sentence now than it has been in 60 years. At least before Roe they would prioritize the woman. Now, if pregnant, you have no rights above your fetus.
Stop fucking men who can get you pregnant. Snip is easy and cheap. #Lysistrata, my sisters in uterus.
What to know about the ruling blocking the mailing of abortion pill mifepristone
A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone. A panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is requiring that the abortion pill be distributed only in-person at clinics. Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed enforcement of abortion bans, prescriptions by mail have become a major way that abortions are provided — including to states where bans are in place. The ruling is expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.