Press Articles by Date

2005

• Evening News: Movie puts clones fear in the picture

2006

• The Herald: The problems arising in stem cell research

• Edinburgh News: Legal body part selling is too dangerous

• The Scotsman: State should not deny child’s need for a father

2007

• Edinburgh News: A place for caution in research

• Edinburgh Evening News: It’s life but not as we know it

• The Scotsman: Scientific community cannot always expect to regulate itself

• The Scotsman: Scientific and moral needs must be balanced in stem-cell legislation

2008

• The Scotsman: Illegal human organ sales

• The Scotsman: Is Scottish law on cloning to change with no discussion by MSPs?

• Edinburgh News: Assisted dying means accepting loss of dignity

2009

• Edinburgh Evening News: Assisted dying isn’t the only way terminally ill can maintain dignity

2010

• The Journal: Dignity is not the same as choice

• The Herald: Level of support for euthanasia legislation determined by wording in opinion polls

• Laboratory News: Are we already creating an super race?

• The Scotsman: Dignity of life trumps the choice of the ill to end their suffering

• Huxley Laboratories: Will the future bring about a super race?

• Bio News: Who are the real creators of a human being?

• Southern Reporter: ‘To function consistently, society must reject assisted suicide…’

• Edinburgh Evening News: Debate is a matter of life or death for Scots

• Edinburgh Evening News: Future under the microscope

• The Scotsman: Assisted suicide a Trojan horse

• Edinburgh Evening News: Complex world of medicine

2011

• Bio News: Is preconception genetic testing and screening eugenic?

• The Herald: Market in body parts is unethical

• Edinburgh Evening News: Elusive concept of human dignity

• Guardian Edinburgh: Psychiatry debates and screenings at the FIlmhouse

2012

• Edinburgh Evening News: Keeping an open mind

2013

• The Herald: legal position on organ consent

• Edinburgh Evening News: Calum MacKellar examines a cyber future where virtual reality could become actual reality

2014

• Bio News: Should persons affected by mitochondrial disorder be brought into existence?

• Bio News: Questions relating to ‘mitochondrial replacement’

• Edinburgh Evening News: Tomorrow’s technology is today’s debate

• The Scotsman: Widespread and ‘respectable’ eugenic policies of the past teach sobering lessons for the present

• MercatorNet: Eugenics wasn’t always a dirty word

• The Scotsman: Radical leaps in scientific progress have raised some complex issues over the position of parents

• Edinburgh Evening News: The question of whether an embryo is a pile of cells or a person is up for debate at a film festival

• The Scotsman: Organ donations need prior consent

2015

• The Scotsman: ‘Form of genetic cleansing amounts to discrimination’

• The Scotsman: Assisted suicide is an assault on dignity

• The Scotsman: Bill can help stamp out organ trafficking

• The Press and Journal: Can we really apply ‘euthanasia for dogs’ example to humans?

• Bio News: Gene editing of human embryos – more ethical questions to answer

• The Scotsman: A chance to Share in vital medical research

• The Scotsman: Westminster’s liberal attitude to human embryology and abortion denies Scottish public a voice

• The Scotsman: Could robot nurses ease the pain at NHS?

• The Scotsman: Real concerns over ability to edit a human life

• Edinburgh Evening News: Film festival can help equip people with tools they need to get to grips with ins and outs of biomedical research

2016

• The Scotsman: New powers on abortion mean everybody should be informed

• The Scotsman: The average person now spends more tie using technology than sleeping, survey reveals

• The Scotsman: Choosing baby’s sex is a wider debate

• Bio News: The 14-day rule for embryonic research in the UK

• Edinburgh Evening News: As medical progress speeds up, we need to ask tough questions about the sort of society we are creating

• The Scotsman: Preserving life is key to abortion debate

• The Scotsman: Referendum vote could mean some big changes

• The Scotsman: Human beings can now be edited… but we may not like the results

• The Scotsman: When an ‘inspirational’ film sends out depressing, dangerous message

2017

• The Scotsman: Westminster moves to outlaw abortion over disability could open new debate

• The Scotsman: Dangers of soft opt-out for organ donation

• The Scotsman: Ethics of human/animal experiments must be set

• The Scotsman: Trudy is part of our happy and fulfilling family

• The Scotsman: Now abortion is devolved, let’s hear what the Scots want

• The Scotsman: Opt-out organ donor system open to charges of ignoring informed consent

• The Scotsman: Equality and fairness? People with disability are being judged before they are even born

2018

• The Herald: Genetic link to IQ will lead scientists into very tricky moral dilemmas

• The Scotsman: Public want a legal framework to have the final say on ethics of abortion

• The Scotsman: Ovarian transplants can give birth to ethical questions over meaning of fertility

• The Scotsman: Self-declaratory system for gender recognition needs far more clarity

• Bio News: The Nuffield report on genome editing and the equality of persons

• The Scotsman: Holyrood’s proposed organ opt-out bill seriously misleading the public

2019

• The Scotsman: Selling surrogacy is a step towards slavery as women are dehumanised

• The Herald: Why Human Tissue Bill should be rejected

• The Scotsman: What is in the ‘best interests’ of a patient where no treatment is of benefit?

• The Scotsman: The value of human life should restrain society from taking it

• The Scotsman: Oh, the humanity – are we in danger of losing it by melding man and machine?

• Bio News: Why the Law Commissions’ consultation paper on surrogacy reform was incomplete

2020

• The Scotsman: Gullible MSPs nodded through an organ bill they didn’t understand

• The Scotsman: Self-declaratory system for gender recognition must be questioned

• The Herald: Right to life does not depend on age or disability

• The Scotsman: Doctors make decisions based on likely clinical outcomes. Not ‘value of life’ judgements

• The Scotsman: Who decides what a life is worth? Not the weak and defenceless

• The Scotsman: The equality of all human beings is the highest value

• Mercator Net: A focus on ‘autonomy’ cheapens the value of human life

• The Scotsman: Healthcare could be locked into self-destructive cycle

• The Scotsman: Think twice before making home abortions the new normal

2021

• The Herald: Are full home abortions legal?

• The Scotsman: Abortion legislation covering disability is unethical

• The Scotsman: Legalising assisted suicide risks the principle of the equality of all lives

• Mercatornet: We should treat all lives as equal. With assisted suicide we don’t.

2022

• The Scotsman: Time for measured debate on the role of GPs in gender dysphoria

• The Scotsman: Legalising assisted suicide would set us on slippery slope towards euthanasia

• The Scotman: ‘Informed consent’ could reduce carbon emissions in healthcare

• The Scotsman: Danger that new law could lead to greater uptake in assisted suicide

• The Scotsman: Think again about gender reform

• The Herald: There can be suffering in assisted suicide too

2023

• Petition aims to end abortions based solely on disability

• The Scotsman: If every life is of equal value, why promote assisted suicide?

• The Scotsman: Assisted dying should not be offered as a solution to problems we have caused

• Bionews: Are human embryo models embryos?

2024

• The Scotsman - reply to “Sometimes people just need to die”

• The Herald: Beware the danger of narmalising suicide

• The Scotsman: Valuing Life

• The Scotsman: Response to Assisted Dying Bill