by Collectif | 29 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On Wednesday, the Louvain Civil Court in Belgium condemned the management of the Huiez Sint-Augustinus residential home in Diest “for its rejection of euthanasia in August 2011”. The management board was ordered to pay “damages” totalling €6,000 to the family of...
by Collectif | 29 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Wednesday, 29 June, the Mexican Supreme Court rejected a draft law to decriminalise abortion. Members of this institution’s upper house rejected, by three votes to one, an initiative seeking to “declare as unconstitutional two articles in the penal code...
by Collectif | 29 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On 22 June 2016 in Prague, the Czech Government voted against a draft bill presented by six MPs and aimed at allowing euthanasia under strict conditions. The draft bill sought to grant euthanasia to terminally ill patients who had requested it. The bill also...
by Collectif | 28 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
On Tuesday, the Lithuanian Parliament adopted a legal framework for in-vitro fertilisation after “years of passionate debate”. To date, in-vitro fertilisation has only been carried out in private establishments for an “average cost of approximately €2,000” and was not...
by Collectif | 27 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In Canada, law C-14, which came into force on 17 June 2016, (seeMedically assisted dying: Canada – law C-14 came into force on Friday, “Murder legalised in Canada”) “provides the framework for medically assisted dying” for consenting adults “whose death is...