Ethical, Social and Regulatory Issues in Advanced Prenatal Testing

How Are Healthcare Providers Conscientiously Objecting to Abortion in Australia? A Qualitative Study

B Merner, CM Haining, L Willmott, J Savulescu, LA Keogh

2026-03-01

Introduction: Researchers have done limited empirical work to explore how healthcare providers are claiming conscientious objectio..

Sex Ratios at Birth Following Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing in Victoria, Australia

H Bowman-Smart, C Gyngell, L Hui, C Mand, MD Pertile, J Savulescu, MB Delatycki

2026-03-01

Objective: Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) can determine fetal chromosomal sex early in pregnancy, raising the possibility of..

‘Screening should not be based on ability to pay’: Australian healthcare providers' and consumers' perspectives on public funding for non-invasive prenatal testing

C Pynaker, M Johnston, C Mills, K Vasey, M Taylor-Sands, H Bowman-Smart, L Hui

2025-06-01

Background: Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) does not receive any Medicare rebate. This study investigated the views of Austra..

Should the scope of NIPT be limited by a ‘threshold of seriousness’?

M Taylor-Sands, M Johnston, C Mills

2025-03-01

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) has the potential to screen for a wider range of genetic conditions than is currently possibl..

Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine?

PM Visscher, C Gyngell, L Yengo, J Savulescu

2025-01-16

Polygenic genome editing in human embryos and germ cells is predicted to become feasible in the next three decades. Several recent..

The Function of Non-invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) Request Forms in the Australian Context

H Bowman-Smart, M Johnston, M Taylor-Sands, L Hui, C Mills

2025-01-01

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is offered on a user-pays basis in Australia, with a range of providers and services availabl..

Disparities in integrating non-invasive prenatal testing into antenatal healthcare in Australia: a survey of healthcare professionals

M Johnston, L Hui, H Bowman-Smart, M Taylor-Sands, MD Pertile, C Mills

2024-12-01

Background: Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) has been clinically available in Australia on a user-pays basis since 2012. There..

Moral dimensions of synthetic biological intelligence: Unravelling the ethics of neural integration

Masanori Kataoka, Christopher Gyngell, Julian Savulescu, Tsutomu Sawai

2024-01-01

Recent research emphasizes the transformative potential of cultured human brain tissues in biocomputing applications. Employing ne..

The ‘Institutional Lottery’: Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia

CM Haining, H Bowman-Smart, A O'Rourke, L de Crespigny, LA Keogh, J Savulescu

2023-11-01

Despite abortion being decriminalised in Victoria, Australia, access remains difficult, especially at later gestations. Institutio..

The importance of accurate representation of human brain organoid research

M Kataoka, C Gyngell, J Savulescu, T Sawai

2023-08-01

Representations of brain organoids in the media are often negatively or positively exaggerated without appropriate discussion. Her..

Ethical issues associated with prenatal screening using non-invasive prenatal testing for sex chromosome aneuploidy

M Johnston, C Warton, MD Pertile, M Taylor-Sands, MB Delatycki, L Hui, J Savulescu, C Mills

2023-02-01

Prenatal screening for sex chromosome aneuploidies (SCAs) is increasingly available through expanded non-invasive prenatal testing..

Australian public perspectives on genomic data storage and sharing: Benefits, concerns and access preferences

F Lynch, Y Meng, S Best, I Goranitis, J Savulescu, C Gyngell, DF Vears

2023-01-01

Diagnostic genomic sequencing generates unprecedented amounts of data. In addition to its primary use, this data could be used for..

Regulating non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for fetal sex determination

M Taylor-Sands, C Warton, H Bowman-Smart

2023-01-01

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) can be used to determine the chromosomal sex of the fetus at an early stage in a pregnancy. T..

The Unethical Texas Heartbeat Law

CM Haining, LA Keogh, J Savulescu

2022-05-01

What is already known? The Texas Heartbeat Act, which has been in effect since September 2021, prohibits abortions once a ‘fetal h..

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A Giubilini, J Savulescu, M Danchin

2022-01-01

Global Ethical Considerations Regarding Mandatory Vaccination in Children

J Savulescu, A Giubilini, M Danchin

2021-04-01

Whether children should be vaccinated against coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) (or other infectious diseases such as influenza)..