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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

USA: Utah votes to ban abortions of foetuses with genetic anomalies

Lawmakers in Utah have just passed a law that will ban any foetal abortion in cases where a genetic abnormality such as Down syndrome has been detected. The law still

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11 March 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

In Indiana, a new proposal to make it a crime for gynaecologists to use their own sperm to inseminate patients

In the United States, the Senate of Indiana has approved a bill according to which doctors could be prosecuted for the fraudulent use of their own sperm to inseminate their

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11 March 2019
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End of life

Swiss nurse suspected of euthanasia

A Swiss nurse is under criminal investigation for homicide following suspicions of euthanasia of elderly patients. An employee of the Regional Hospital of Mendrisio, he allegedly administered “non-prescribed medications” according

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11 March 2019
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End of life

Assisted death in Canada: Court finds man guilty of manslaughter after suffocating his wife

Saturday, after a month-long trial and three days of deliberations, 57-year-old Michel Cadotte, accused of suffocating his wife with Alzheimer’s disease, has been convicted of manslaughter by a jury of

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11 March 2019
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

US family planning program cuts abortion funding

In the United States, the law bans the use of taxpayer funds to pay for abortions. The Trump administration on Friday issued a rule barring clinics that provide abortions or

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11 March 2019
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End of life

Euthanasia: a painful, inhuman death?

“Although aiming to achieve painless, distress-free death, a study has shown that this is not always the case”.  Professor Jaideep Pandit, an anaesthetist at Oxford University Hospitals, has published a

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11 March 2019
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The European Parliament condemns normalising surgery on children born with a difference in sexual development

By a resolution adopted on 14 February, the European Parliament has condemned operations to “normalise children born with a difference in sexual development”[1]. These practices are also being challenged by

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11 March 2019
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CRISPR Therapeutics announces that it has treated its first patient

The Swiss biotechnology company CRISPR Therapeutics has announced that it has used CRISPR to treat a patient with beta-thalassemia. This experiment was sponsored by Vertex Pharmaceuticals of Boston (see Americans

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11 March 2019
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