The Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics exists to help Catholics and others to explore the Church's position on bioethical issues.  Its perspective is informed by Catholic moral teaching, but in defending such teaching it seeks also to enable dialogue with those of no religious faith.  The Linacre Centre can help you consider questions such as:

What's wrong with cloning? 

Is euthanasia ever justified?

How should couples respond to fertility problems?

When, if ever, may a doctor perform an abortion?

When can we safely say a person has died?

What about the law?...

NEW - Paper on The Case Against Assisted Dying

NEW - Paper on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - Life or lifestyle?

NEW - Linacre Ethics Forum

NEW - Paper on Prenatal Tests/Abortion

The Linacre Centre offers:

• online papers on bioethical topics , including submissions to Government committees and other official bodies

• publications on bioethics from our bookshop

• a bioethics reference library of over 6,000 titles which is open to researchers

• public lectures, conferences and seminars for chaplains, nurses, doctors, teachers, and school and university students

• expert advice and consultancy for individuals, working parties and organisations such as the Catholic Bishops' Joint Bioethics Committee 
  (of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland).

Under the Trusteeship of the Catholic Trust for England and Wales, the Linacre Centre is the only Catholic bioethics centre in the UK and Ireland.  It is affiliated to Ave Maria School of Law, Ann Arbor, Michigan.