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Organ donation

UN denounces organ trafficking

On Monday, 7 January, the United Nations published a report in which it deplores the fact that human trafficking continues to be a largely unpunished crime, referring in particular to

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28 January 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

In Britain single people will now be able to become parents through surrogacy

A corrective order has come into force in the United Kingdom, allowing single people to legally become the parents of their children conceived through surrogacy. Under British law, a woman

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28 January 2019
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Genome

Genetically modified babies: He Jiankui faces death penalty

Chinese researcher He Jiankui, who claims to have delivered the first genetically modified babies, has been living under house arrest on a Shenzhen university campus since his announcement at the

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28 January 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

Ireland: medically assisted reproduction law delayed

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar announced that funds would be made available to couples using medically assisted reproduction treatments. At the same time, he admitted that adoption of the medically

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28 January 2019
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End of life

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) hears Belgian euthanasia case

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has just agreed to take up a case of euthanasia in Belgium.   Godelieve De Troyer was euthanised in 2012 by

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28 January 2019
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End of life

United Kingdom: new guidelines for “euthanasia by omission”

In July 2018, the UK Supreme Court abolished the need for legal authorisation to withdraw a patient’s food and water if both family and doctor agree (see UK Supreme Court

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28 January 2019
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

In China, the “two-child policy” encourages abortion

In China, a woman pregnant with her third child “was forced to have an abortion under threat of sending her brother to an internment camp“.   Introduced in 1979, the

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28 January 2019
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Organ donation

Robot-assisted uterine transplants: first pregnancy in Sweden

In Sweden, the first country to have performed uterine transplants from live donors, a new study is trialling robot-assisted surgery. Six Swedish women have undergone surgery with this new uterine

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28 January 2019
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    • Transhumanism
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