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The state of New Jersey is set to legalize euthanasia
On Monday, 25 March, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced that he would sign the bill passed by the State Assembly and Senate, “allowing terminally ill patients to seek life-ending medication”. Under the bill, “adult New Jersey residents with a prognosis of...
US: Utah lawmakers pass 18-week abortion bans
The Governor of Utah signed a law Monday evening restricting abortion, which can now only be performed before the eighteenth week of pregnancy. Republican Cheryl Acton, who sponsored the measure, said that the goal was to reduce the number of second-trimester...
Washington, D.C: “American taxpayer money will not be used to fund abortion.”
“American taxpayer money will not be used to underwrite abortions”, said Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State, yesterday at a press conference in Washington. “We’ll continue to refuse to assist foreign NGOs who perform or promote abortions, as well as give financial...
Abortion in free fall in Portugal
According to a report published by the Portuguese health authorities, the number of abortions performed in the country fell by 25% between 2011 and 2017. Abortion in Portugal was decriminalized in 2007. The number of abortions initially increased every...
MAR: 1,000 embryo adoptions in Spain
Resulting from medically assisted reproduction procedures, supernumerary embryos will be destroyed, handed over for research or offered for adoption, depending on the decision made by their biological parents. In Spain, this latter option is offered to heterosexual...
At the UN, Archbishop Auza denounces the “genocide” of people with Down syndrome
The situation is "particularly acute for women and girls with Down syndrome [1]," said Archbishop Auza, Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations. He was speaking at an event called ‘Social Protections for Women, Girls and All Those...
Advanced paternal age associated with the risk of schizophrenia in children
A Chinese study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry links advanced paternal age with the risk of schizophrenia in children. "After taking into account polygenic parental risk scores, each additional decade of fathers' lives increased the risk of early-onset...
Premature newborns: babies are viable earlier and earlier
Thanks to medical advances, premature newborns are becoming viable earlier and earlier, with "tiny babies surviving at 24, 23 and even 22 weeks". In the 1980s, it was generally accepted that babies were viable from 28 weeks onwards of a 40-week pregnancy. At this age,...
A male contraceptive pill is being studied
Researchers at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute are working on a male contraceptive pill, which has just passed the safety tests (phase I clinical trial). The data was presented at ENDO 2019, the annual meeting of the American Society of Endocrinology....
2,400,000 people in Argentina demonstrate against abortion
According to the organizers, 300,000 people were in the streets of Buenos Aires last Saturday. Other Marches for Life were also organized in 200 cities across Argentina, "with the total number of participants in the country’s various marches coming to 2,400,000...
After Anne Ratier’s video, “the danger that human beings will become ‘valueless’ is a threat for us”
Last week, Hugo Clément, a journalist from Konbini interviewed Anne Ratier to mark the publication of her book "I gifted death to my son", published thirty years after the event. The philosopher and genethics expert Pascal Jacob explains the risks associated with the...
Diagnosed with cancer, pregnant mother delays chemotherapy to complete pregnancy
Sheila Downing, a 33-year-old American woman, was 17 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour. After quickly undergoing an operation, the doctors presented Sheila with a heart-wrenching set of options[1]: start chemotherapy immediately, putting her...