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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...
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...
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...
A new American state has adopted the Heartbeat bill, a law that prohibits abortion once a foetal heartbeat can be detected, usually around...
On 4 May 2019, the UN International Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) – to which the matter was referred by...
Since abortion was decriminalized in Ireland on 2 January 2019, the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) My Options helpline has received 6,000...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has released its latest data on medically assisted reproduction in the United...
Following a petition signed by 82,000 Dutch people, a law now allows parents who so wish to do so to apply for their stillborn child to be...
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) are one "of the most important tools in modern biomedical research". To obtain them, an adult cell,...
On Friday, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muiznieks, threatened Poland that the potential adoption of its draft bill against eugenic abortion would violate the country's human rights' commitments[1]. This is not the first time that Mr. Muiznieks has advocated abortion. However, on closer examination, his threat seems exaggerated for the most...
On Wednesday, Le Monde published an article in which 156 MPs call on the government to legislate on...
CRISPR tools have caused gene drive technology to resurface: it consists in stimulating the transmission...
