Author / Monica Delles
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Case Study: Pregnancy Termination
This pregnancy termination clinical ethics case study regards a 32-year-old patient presenting with a likely nonviable pregnancy at 10 weeks gestation raises critical questions about patient autonomy, informed consent, and physician paternalism when her OB/GYN refuses to prescribe termination medication pending a follow-up scan. Center for Practical Bioethics.
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2026 Breakfast of Champions
The Breakfast of Champions, the Center’s annual fundraiser, is Thursday, September 17, 2026 from 7:30-9:30 am at Sporting Park, home of the Sporting KC soccer team in Kansas City. The Center for Practical Bioethics
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Screening Bioethics Episode 2
Screening Bioethics is a webinar series exploring bioethics topics in popular media with hosts Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD, and Nanette Elster, JD, MPH. In the second episode they will examine and discuss ethical issues at the end of life in three recent shows on television. This 45-minute exploration will be followed by a 15-minute Q & A. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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April 2026 Bioethics Bulletin E-Newsletter
CPB’s April 2026 Bulletin explores the ethics of using cadaver tissue for cosmetic procedures, argues Medicaid work requirements are ethically incoherent, highlights new research on cost-saving clinical ethics integration, and announces upcoming 2026 events.
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Beyond the Gala: A New Model for Community-Driven Fundraising in Bioethics
The Center is redefining fundraising through community-driven events, expanding reach, and making bioethics more accessible to all. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Case Study: Medicaid Work Requirements
Medical work requirements prevent the patient with early-stage breast cancer to qualify for Medicaid while caring for her father. Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Medicaid Work Requirements Are Ethically Incoherent
Justice strengthens leadership, and conversely, when leadership lacks justice, moral distress proliferates. Leaders who model fairness signal that ethical concerns are legitimate operational considerations. They’re a practical necessity – not distractions from efficiency. In Ethical Musings, we compare the ad hominem ethical fallacy to other ethical systems’ approach to judging moral character and leadership. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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March 2026 Bioethics Bulletin E-Newsletter
How Institutional Barriers Conflict with Ethical Action is the subject for the March 31, 2026 Bioethics Bulletin. Topics include: The Screening Bioethics first episode, “The Pitt Makes Bioethics Relevant,” Mike Rode Continues Stowers Legacy at the Center for Practical Bioethics, Two CPB Board Members Honored: Stephen Salanski and Catherine Satterwhite, Blurred Lines at the Bedside: A Call for Ethical Presence, and the March Ethics Dispatch titled, Ethical Leadership in Healthcare: One Key Element Diminishing Moral Distress through Justice. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Blurred Lines at the Bedside: A Call for Ethical Presence
Ethical presence honors humanity and fosters humility. A clinical ethicist explores the ethical issues nurses confront in patient care and the need for organizational leaders to pay greater attention to the role ethics plays in addressing these challenges. She concludes with a call to foster an ethical culture by investing in ethics services. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Mike Rode Continues Stowers Legacy at the Center for Practical Bioethics
Mike Rode Continues Stowers Legacy at the Center for Practical Bioethics. Mike Rode is a board member for the Center and Vice President and Senior Investment Director at American Century since 2018.
