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End of life

Spain passes law on “death with dignity” and paves the way for euthanasia

On 20 December 2018, Spanish Congress MPs adopted the final text of the Muerte Digna law on “death with dignity”. While the law officially aims to harmonise palliative care between

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4 February 2019
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

42 million abortions worldwide last year

In 2018, 41.9 million abortions were performed worldwide, “i.e. more than the number of deaths globally recorded for the ten main causes of death”,according to the statistics website Worldometers[1], which

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4 February 2019
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End of life

New medical ethics manual in the US: doctors still opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia

The American College of Physicians  (ACP) yesterday published an updated edition of its ethics manual, the seventh version since 1984. The purpose of this manual is to “facilitate the process

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4 February 2019
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

United States – most young adults disagree with Democrats on abortion

Over the past three years, US democrats have fought to expand access to abortion and have created a national information platform on the subject.   The American media claim that

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4 February 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

€250 to choose “own” Swedish sperm donor from photo

Cryos, a Danish sperm bank, now gives clients the chance to select their sperm donor from a photo gallery “in order to get the most beautiful babies”. This option costs

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4 February 2019
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Declining birth rate: “Norway needs more children!”

“Norway needs more children! I don’t think I need to spell it out for you“, said the Norwegian Prime Minister on 17 January 2019. In 2017, the fertility rate reached

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4 February 2019
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

UN Human Rights Committee: Egyptian expert denounces “violation of the right to life”

In an article published today, the European Centre for Law and Justice discusses comments made by Mahmoud Fathalla, an Egyptian, and one of the experts on the United Nations Human

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4 February 2019
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A woman, in a vegetative state for 10 years, gives birth to a child

In Arizona, in the United States, a woman who has been in a vegetative state for a decade has just given birth to a child. No-one had even noticed that

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28 January 2019
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