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An international UN tax to finance abortion?
Financing of the UN and its satellite organisations is guaranteed by voluntary contributions from Member States. This fund is monitored to ensure transparency and accountability. “Senior UN officials and others want the United Nations to have its own budget and own...
IVF increases the risk of ovarian cancer
In late October 2015, a British study conducted by Professor Alastair Sutcliffe and a team of scientists at University College Hospital London, confirmed the role of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the increased risk of ovarian cancer in sterile women. A...
European uprising against surrogacy
A few days away from the vote on the draft bill relating to the surrogacy report and resolution by the Commission, social questions are raised by the Council of Europe and the No Maternity Traffic Collective, the FAFCE[1] and ECLJ[2] take a stance to oppose it. ...
Natural law: the current fundamental approach to resolving tricky bioethics questions
Bioethics debates are often divided between utilitarian or “ethical” perspectives and a Kantian approach to ethics. There is, however, an alternative approach which attracts less attention, namely natural law. Professor John Keown from Georgetown University, has...
One of us: The European Federation for Life
Four years after the launch of the European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI) One of Us, with its two million signatures, which were overlooked by the European Commission in May 2014, “approximately thirty movements in sixteen countries are joining forces to become a major...
Failure of the first uterus transplant in the United States
The first uterus transplant carried out at the end of February in the United States, has failed. The complications which arose following transplantation “compelled the medical team to remove the organ”. The Cleveland Clinic made the following statement: “We...
Surrogacy: the Hague Conference and Council of Europe – heading towards legalisation?
Many European States ban surrogacy and non-European countries that authorise it are tending to limit or even prohibit it. The European Parliament condemned this practice in its report on human rights and democracy in December 2015. “However, with total discretion, two...
Pontifical Academy for Life: the Pope invites the health professions not to forget “humanity”
“Doctors and all health workers must never abandon a blending of science, technical expertise and humanity”. His comments came in an address to participants at the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life. The Pontiff received them as they...
To allow abortion for rape victims in conflict situations: a new plea from the UN
Pro-abortion groups and members of the UN are calling on humanitarian associations to “provide abortions for rape victims in conflict situations”. This recent plea from the United Nations confirms that abortion is a humanitarian right [1]. For Susan Yoshihara, from...
Italian Senate: an exiled American surrogate mother denounces slavery
In 2006, Elisa Anna Gomez, an American woman, was living in the State of Minnesota. Yesterday, she testified before the Italian Senate. Already mother to two grown-up children, “she offered” to be a surrogate mother on an Internet forum. After meeting several...
In Switzerland, requests for assisted suicide “have soared”
The Exit Suisse alémanique association has published its figures for 2015. Assisted suicide requests “have soared”: 782 “cases” in 2015, i.e. “30% more than in 2014”. Exit Suisse romande should publish its figures in April, but “a similar trend”...
Abortion: are South American doctors often obliged to act against their conscience?
The Interamerican Court of Human Rights could soon pass judgment on the obligation for South American doctors to act against their conscience, at least in the case of abortion. In a document presented to the Court, the Center for Reproductive Rights...