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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Belgium: Many abortions do not meet legal conditions

As Belgium is considering fully legalising abortion, experts are being heard in parliament. Their input has raised questions: several of them are proud to perform illegal abortions, while others seem

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12 July 2018
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End of life

English doctor euthanised patients for years with impunity

In Hampshire, Dr Jane Baron took “the liberty of ‘routinely’ prescribing opiates (diamorphine, the technical term for heroin) beyond reason to patients who did not need them”. She did so

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12 July 2018
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End of life

Five arguments against euthanasia?

Doctors and bioethicists have published an analysis in the Journal of Palliative Care, outlining five main reasons for opposing euthanasia. Amongst them, Daniel Sulmasy[1], from  Georgetown University, who served on

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27 June 2018
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Prenatal diagnosis

NIPT in Wales: “as though the government wanted to make part of the human race extinct”

Wales has become the first country in the UK to offer non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) on the NHS aimed at women at a higher risk of having a child with

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27 June 2018
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Hormonal contraception increases the risk of breast cancer in women over 40

Hormonal contraception, whether in the form of the pill or IUD, is not harmless for women aged 40 and over.  Danish researchers followed up 1.8 million women aged 15 to

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27 June 2018
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Genome

FDA remains cautious regarding CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell anaemia

The FDA[1] has not approved a clinical trial request for CTX001, an experimental drug that uses CRISPR technology. This drug is ex-vivo[2] gene therapy which would be used as first-line

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27 June 2018
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Treatments using CRISPR-Cas9 could increase the risk of cancer

On Monday, researchers at the University of Cambridge in Great Britain and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden warned against the risks of genome-editing technology currently being explored by scientists around

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27 June 2018
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

85% of Irish doctors believe that abortion cannot be considered “routine general practice”

Whether for or against abortion, 85% of Irish doctors believe that “medical abortion is not part of routine general practice”. To trivialise abortion by likening it “to the treatment of

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27 June 2018
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    • Transhumanism
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