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MAP – Surrogacy

U.S.: Reproductive fraud soon to be penalized as “sexual assault” in Texas

Texas has just passed a law expanding the definition of sexual assault to include reproductive fraud. Fertility fraud involves both gynaecologists who inseminate patients with their own sperm, as well

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11 June 2019
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Nevada expands the conditions for abortion, Vermont seeks to make it a “fundamental right”

In the state of Nevada, “self-induced abortion is punishable by up to 10 years in prison”. After a second review, lawmakers have just adopted a “reform that decriminalizes the over-the-counter

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11 June 2019
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Conscientious objection

The Pope has addressed healthcare workers: any “medical intervention on human beings” must be evaluated in terms of respect for “life and human dignity”

Pope Francis today addressed some 300 members of the Italian Catholic Association of Healthcare Workers at the Vatican. The Holy Father recalled that any “medical intervention on human beings” must

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11 June 2019
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End of life

Vincent Lambert: lawyers ask for his transfer to a specialized unit

“Vincent is fine. Vincent is not at the end of his life”, said his mother Viviane after leaving the hospital on Tuesday once his nutrition and hydration had resumed. “Vincent

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11 June 2019
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End of life

Foetuses treated as ‘medical waste’ in Hong Kong

Babies born in Hong Kong before the age of twenty-four weeks are treated as “medical waste”: they are “incinerated and then thrown away as landfill“. An eye-witness account revealed in the

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11 June 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

Oocyte freezing gives women no guarantee

As the trend towards late motherhood continues, more and more women are considering oocyte freezing as insurance against age-related infertility. In the United Kingdom, figures published by the Human Fertilization

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11 June 2019
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End of life

Vincent Lambert: what place do disabled people have in our societies?

“The Lambert case is not about the end-of-life debate but rather the place of disabled people in our societies”. It raises an issue to which Nazi Germany found a radical

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11 June 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

Uterine transplant: two babies born in Germany

Two babies were born following uterine transplants at Tübingen University Hospital in Germany: one in March and the other in May. Both women were suffering from Müllerian agenesis, a rare

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11 June 2019
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Bioethics News - News and insight on bioethics today

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    • Transhumanism
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