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End of life

Assisted suicide: lobbying in Switzerland has international impact

Several Swiss right-to-die organisations are politically and legally active abroad in a drive to push assisted suicide. Eternal Spirit is a typical example with the president of this organisation advocating

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30 November 2018
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Contraception and side effects: British women complain of lack of information

According to a new study published by The Femedic on women’s health and education, 75% of women in the United Kingdom believe that they have not been fully informed by

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30 November 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Automatic rights to US citizenship: impact on surrogacy market

In an interview published last week, Donald Trump reiterated his desire to end automatic rights to US citizenship. This would involve passing an executive order challenging this principle included in

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27 November 2018
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Paraplegics walk again thanks to spinal implant and intense rehabilitation

Three individuals with paralysed legs managed to walk again without stimulation. Although American researchers recently got a paraplegic individual to take a few steps by electrically stimulating the spinal cord

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27 November 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Great quality female embryo offered for male embryo: when embryos are traded in classified ads

“We have a great quality female embryo… like to consider a trade?” These were the words posted by a 37-year-old American actress in an IVF Facebook group to find a little

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27 November 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Rising success of IVF causes collapse in adoptions in England and Wales

  Over the last 40 years, i.e. since the birth of the first “test-tube baby”, adoptions in England and Wales have fallen by 62%. At the same time, the success

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27 November 2018
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End of life

A 69-year-old Australian man convinced his wife to commit suicide and gets a ten-year prison sentence

Sixty-nine-year-old Australian Graham Morant was found guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison on 2 November for persuading his wife to commit suicide. This case has set a precedent

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27 November 2018
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Organ donation

In Spain – two patients die after kidney transplants using organs contaminated with herpes

On 30 June 2018, a fifteen-year-old boy and a woman aged twenty-two underwent kidney transplant surgery at the Seville Hospital. The operation went well but their condition soon deteriorated. The

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27 November 2018
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Bioethics News - News and insight on bioethics today

News and insight on bioethics today

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    • Cloning
    • Conscientious objection
    • Embryo research and alternatives
    • End of life
    • Genome
    • GMO
    • MAP / surrogacy
    • Organ donation
    • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
    • Prenatal diagnosis
    • Transhumanism
  • Contact
  • About & legals
  • Cookie policy (EU)
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