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MAP – Surrogacy

In Belgium, sperm donor anonymity crumbles

In Belgium, “the law states that sperm donations should be voluntary and anonymous“. However, the “Donor Detectives” Foundation [2] has announced that two Belgians born through “insemination by an anonymous

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30 October 2017
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MAP – Surrogacy

MAP is “a selfish act” that prevents a child from knowing “where he/she comes from”

For Elina Dumont, social worker and ward of the state, interviewed on RMC (Radio Monte Carlo), MAP (medically assisted pregnancy) is “a selfish act” because it denies a child the

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30 October 2017
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

At the UN – a new partial definition of the “right to life”

At the UN, the Human Rights’ Committee “is currently revising the definition of ‘right to life’ in international law”. According to the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), using this

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27 October 2017
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Expanded stem cells, progress?

These past months, two publications have shared a discovery in the field of stem cells: the possibility to extract and conserve, in an undifferentiated state, embryonic totipotent stem cells, while

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23 October 2017
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Belgium: he killed his wife “out of compassion” – will he be sentenced?

In the Belgian city of Liège, a 73 year-old man is facing criminal proceedings “having fatally poisoned his wife”. According to him, “he was only following his wife’s wishes to

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23 October 2017
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MAP – Surrogacy

United Kingdom: child born through IVF without the father’s consent

In the United Kingdom, a couple divorced in 2010 following the birth of their first child by IVF in 2008. A few months later, the woman asked the clinic to

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23 October 2017
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Mandatory contraception cover by employers: the Trump administration makes a stand

On Friday, President Trump’s administration overturned in the name of “religious and moral beliefs”, “a provision of the ‘Obamacare’ law which obliged employers to include contraception in health insurance cover

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23 October 2017
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Surrogacy: “you cannot replace the suffering of an adult with the suffering of a child”

Un cri secret d’enfant [1]. In a poignant book, Anne Schaub denounces the serious consequences surrogacy may have on the behaviour and identity building of a person.   Having observed

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23 October 2017
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    • Organ donation
    • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
    • Prenatal diagnosis
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