Countering Catholic Misinformation about Vaccines
Someone recently mentioned to me that he was not planning to get the COVID-19 vaccine. He told me he was concerned that RNA vaccines...
Should we take whatever vaccine is offered?
On March 1, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker told residents in Mattapan that when it comes to the various COVID-19 vaccines, “These are all very...
Accelerating vaccine development
Creating a new vaccine and bringing it to market typically requires more than a decade of research and clinical testing. Many companies and research...
Thinking through the rationing of ventilators
When ventilators are in short supply, several key ethical principles can assist clinicians:
1) Ventilators should not be rationed based on categorical exclusions such as a patient’s age, disability (e.g. being paraplegic) or...
Christian girls and abortion
When Mother Teresa visited New Bedford in June 1995, she told those of us gathered at St. Lawrence Martyr Church: “Abortion is the greatest...
The foxes and the henhouse
Probably the biggest bioethics story of 2019 involved Dr. Jankui He (known to his associates as “JK”), a Chinese scientist who employed a new...
