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“Euthanasia undermines the foundations of medical practice”
Euthanasie Stop, Andreia Cunha dos Santos Silva (04/06/2018) Je veux être un médecin, pas un meurtrier!
Lawmakers authorize Missouri to continue practising abortions until 4 June
In Missouri, the abortion licence of the Saint-Louis Clinic, the only state clinic to perform abortions, was extended by the Court from 31 May to 4 June. The renewal of this licence shall remain pending until the new hearing, scheduled for Tuesday morning. The...
Foetal tissue research: U.S. to limit public funding
The U.S. Department of Health announced yesterday that it will stop “all medical research in federal centres on tissues collected from aborted foetuses”. “Promoting the dignity of human life from conception to natural death is one of the top priorities of President...
U.S.: natural birth control methods better recognized by health authorities
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the leading U.S. federal agency for public health protection, recently changed its information on natural birth control methods on their website. Until now, the site mentioned a failure rate of 24% for these...
U.S.: State of Washington legalizes the composting of humans
With 3.6 million estimated deaths per year by 2037, “1 million more than in 2015”, the United States is growing concerned about the availability of cemetery space. And one state, Washington, has passed a law to allow human composting for the first time. Governor...
GMO babies: shorter life expectancy?
The two GMO babies born in China following He Jiankui's experiments have a risk of early mortality; so concludes a study published on Monday in the journal Nature Medicine [1]. Last November, when the Chinese scientist announced that he had produced genetically...
A young woman in Montreal had an abortion and wanted to keep the child
A young Canadian woman went to have an abortion at the Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux (CIUSSS – integrated university centre for health and social services), in the Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal in Quebec, when she was more than five...
GMO babies: ban maintained in the United States
Although a committee voted last month to lift the ban on genetic modification of embryos intended for pregnancy and birth, the American Congress has in the end decided to maintain it. "While some experts argued that the United States will lag behind equivalent...
In the Netherlands, Noa Pothoven was not euthanized – she died of hunger and thirst
After the announcement that a 17-year-old teenager was euthanized in the Netherlands on Thursday, denial bordering on relief soon circulated on the internet, and was very quickly relayed by the mainstream media. But Noa Pothoven, who had been traumatized by several...
In a coma, she woke up just before she was switched off
The doctors considered that there was no possibility of improvement and her two children, aged 22 and 23, were confronted with the painful obligation of having to choose between "keeping their mother alive in pain" or letting her die. "You have no idea how...
Organ donation: the automatic assumption that follows from presumed consent is contrary to the very principle of donation
The Swiss bishops are opposed to presumed consent for organ donation. "We are not against organ donation [...]. But we do not want it to be automatic," said Bishop Felix Gmür, president of the Swiss Bishops' Conference (Conférence des évêques suisses, CES), at a press...
The United Kingdom: towards laws facilitating surrogacy?
Au Royaume-Uni, la Law Commission, chargée de conseiller le gouvernement sur les réformes juridiques, vient de rédiger un projet de « Surrogacy pathway », ou solution de GPA. Les lois actuelles régissant la gestation pour autrui au Royaume-Uni datent des...