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End of life

Medically assisted dying in Canada: disturbing figures

On 6 October 2017, a “second interim report on medically assisted dying” was published by the Canadian Health Minister. Between June 2016, the date on which medically assisted dying was

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23 October 2017
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End of life

Australia: children authorised to write advance care directives

In Australia, the state of Victoria has authorised children “of any age” to write advance care directives. Until now, regardless of country, the law “gives the last word to parents”

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23 October 2017
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MAP – Surrogacy

Ireland: heading towards reimbursement for MAP and post-mortem use of gametes and embryos?

The Irish Government has approved a bill presented by Health Minister, Simon Harris, focusing on “a full set of measures […] regarding medically assisted procreation“.    For the first time

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23 October 2017
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MAP – Surrogacy

Canada: Experts and ethicists want to lift the ban on three-parent IVF

In Canada, the creation of embryos from three DNAs (see One baby, 3 DNAs, 3 transgressions) is banned. Canada’s law on assisted procreation states that no-one can consciously “modify the

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23 October 2017
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End of life

In India, the Central Government rejects the start of a legal debate on “living wills”

On Tuesday, the Indian Central Government announced its opposition to the authorisation of “living wills“. This announcement is part of a debate on active and passive euthanasia, which has been

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23 October 2017
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Council of Europe: Towards banning the use of genetic technologies in human embryos

Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a recommendation concerning “the recourse to new genetic technologies in human beings”.   The parliamentary Assembly underlined the fact

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19 October 2017
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Conscientious objection

In Chile, conscientious objection to abortion extends to institutions

Following the vote on the bill to decriminalise abortion in Chile at the end of August (see Chile decriminalises abortion in some cases), the Constitutional Court extended conscientious objection to

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17 October 2017
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Embryo research and alternatives

Human embryo stem cells: Asterias continues its trials

The Asterias company is carrying out a 1/2A clinical trial for patients presenting spinal cord injuries. This trial assess the safety and efficacy of AST-OPC1 therapy, which involves injecting these

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17 October 2017
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Bioethics News - News and insight on bioethics today

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    • Organ donation
    • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
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    • Transhumanism
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