Tag Archives: Julian Savulescu
The New Eugenics: Engineering “Moral Enhancement” by embryo screening and selective abortion
By Richard Weikart Recently Oxford philosophy professor Julian Savulescu moved his campaign for “moral enhancement” out of the ivory tower and into the mainstream. This month Reader’s Digest is carrying his article, “It’s Our Duty to Have Designer Babies,” in
The infanticide controversy: the editor
By Michael Cook An interview with Julian Savulescu from Australia Unlimited on Vimeo. Julian Savulescu, the Australian philosopher who was a student of Peter Singer and is now the director of Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, is ever
Defending the Indefensible: Journal Editor Celebrates Publishing Pro-Infanticide Essay
By Dave Andrusko In his righteously indignant defense of his decision to publish a pro-infanticide manifesto, the editor of the “Journal of Medical Ethics,” Prof. Julian Savulescu, yesterday unwittingly helped publicize recommendations that routinely emerge in the bioethics community and