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End of life

Vincent Lambert: the urgent applications judge refuses to apply the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

On Wednesday, the Paris Administrative Court rejected the urgent appeal of Vincent Lambert’s parents for a suspension of the procedure decided by Vincent’s doctor to stop their son’s care. The

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28 May 2019
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End of life

Chile: Lawmakers advance bill permitting euthanasia for 14-year-olds

The Committee on Public Health in the lower chamber of Chile’s congress approved a bill that would allow 14-year-olds to obtain the means for medically-assisted suicide. This move, approved in

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20 May 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

U.S.: frozen embryos are not people? A attorney submits an appeal before the Ohio Supreme Court

An Ohio appeals court upheld on Thursday a previous ruling that frozen embryos are not people. This decision was based on an Ohio law that states that an embryo is

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20 May 2019
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Only 20% of American women know their cycle

A new survey by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York revealed a “basic gap in fertility knowledge for many US women”. The study, which was conducted with

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20 May 2019
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

U.S.: Georgia to become the fourth state to adopt the “Heartbeat bill”

A new American state has adopted the Heartbeat bill, a law that prohibits abortion once a foetal heartbeat can be detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy. The law will

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20 May 2019
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End of life

The Vincent Lambert case: the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities calls for euthanasia decision to be suspended

On 4 May 2019, the UN International Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) – to which the matter was referred by Vincent Lambert’s parents – asked France

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20 May 2019
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Abortion in Ireland: 6,000 requests for information since January 2019

Since abortion was decriminalized in Ireland on 2 January 2019, the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) My Options helpline has received 6,000 calls. Of the 317 Irish general practitioners willing to

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20 May 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

The United Kingdom: 20,500 test-tube babies born in 2017

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has released its latest data on medically assisted reproduction in the United Kingdom.   More than 54,000 patients underwent 75,000 fertility treatments in

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20 May 2019
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