They are an opportunity for the Observer to recognise and reward the very best products, innovations and schemes that make living ethically both accessible and aspirational.
Banking of UCB and placental tissue offer an easily accessible and ethically responsible source of MSCs, and minimally invasive routes are currently tested [47, 66, 134 136].
These cell lines are of non-tumor origin, they are immortalized by a function not oncogenic in human and they are from an ethically accepted and easily accessible cell source.
We also realize (but do personally not endorse) the view that sacrificing potentially rare animals for proper description and deposition in an accessible museum is ethically challenging for some; a fact that may also contribute to false positives and an inflation of species numbers.
Adequate health infrastructure and services must be available within a geographical area, accessible physically and economically, acceptable culturally and ethically, and be of adequate medical quality.
A rights-based approach to maternal health identifies the centrality of a just and effective health system ensuring that maternal, reproductive, and sexual health services, goods, and information are available, accessible (physically accessible, financially affordable, and based on equality and non-discrimination), acceptable (ethically and culturally), and of good quality (56).
These post-natal tissues represent a useful ethically non-controversial alternative providing certain advantages as a consistent and enriched MSC source which is easily accessible.
Ethically, they have failed.
Did she behave ethically?
That is ethically dubious.
