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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Ireland: nurses and midwives follow in doctors’ footsteps and refuse to practise abortion

In Ireland, a group of nurses and midwives has joined forces with doctors and announced their refusal to take part in abortion services. They explain that, in the case of

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17 December 2018
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Omnigender, neutrois, intersex… Australian birth certificates with 33 possible genders?

This would allow Australian parents to choose from 33 gender options instead of the traditional ‘male’ or ‘female’ when registering the birth of their children. According to the Australian Labour

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17 December 2018
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End of life

In California, assisted suicide law will be applied

The California Court of Appeal has overturned a lower court’s ruling from May 2018 which held that the state’s assisted suicide law was unconstitutional. The law was passed during a

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17 December 2018
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

In Ireland, amendment intended to ban abortion on disability grounds is rejected

Irish Minister for Health Simon Harris has rejected calls to ban abortion on the grounds of disability. In fact, as technology advances, it will become much cheaper and easier to

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17 December 2018
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Preimplantation genetic diagnosis

Sorting embryos according to their IQ?

The companies Genomic Prediction and MyOme have come up with two new pre-implantation diagnosis “options”. Pre-implantation diagnosis or PID is a technique that was developed thirty years ago. It provides

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10 December 2018
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End of life

In England, baby’s ventilator is turned off without parental consent. NHS pays compensation

A British couple have just won a legal battle against the NHS in relation to their new-born baby who died in 2012. According to staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital ,

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10 December 2018
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Ohio: draft bill to ban abortion of foetuses with detectable heartbeats

The Ohio House of Representatives has adopted a bill banning abortions as soon as a foetal heartbeat is detected. The decision was passed by 65 votes to 30. The Senate

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10 December 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Disappearance of anonymity in biological parentage – and anonymous delivery?

A review of the bioethics law challenges sperm donor anonymity “which could be removed” for two reasons: the international commitments signed by France in relation to “access to origin” and

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10 December 2018
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Bioethics News - News and insight on bioethics today

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    • GMO
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    • Organ donation
    • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
    • Prenatal diagnosis
    • Transhumanism
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