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![Italy: toward the challenging of the law authorizing abortion?](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img-ivg_241.jpg)
Italy: toward the challenging of the law authorizing abortion?
In an article published in the Hunffington Post, an Italian lawyer ponders the impact of the Oliver Brüstle / Greenpeace eV ruling about the Italian legislation concerning abortion. In 1978, Italy decided on "a legal status for the right to voluntary...
![United States: rejection of a bill against selective abortions](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img-ivg_255.jpg)
United States: rejection of a bill against selective abortions
On Thursday 31 May 2012, a federal bill presented by the Republican representative Trent Francks from Arizona aimed at prohibiting abortions for the purposes of “sex selection” was rejected by the House of Representatives, which has a Republican majority....
![Turkey: the government backs off from challenging the right to abortion](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img-ivg_242.jpg)
Turkey: the government backs off from challenging the right to abortion
Thursday 21 June 2012, the Turkish government "is backtracking regarding its intentions to challenge the right to abortion which triggered a controversy in Turkey." Nevertheless, last month, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "initiated a...
![Switzerland: adoption on a legal outline for assisted suicide](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img-findevie_354.jpg)
Switzerland: adoption on a legal outline for assisted suicide
Until today, assisted suicide has been authorized in Switzerland but without any regulations in force. On 17 June 2012, the Swiss canton of Vaud "overwhelmingly approved by a vote the setting up of a legal framework for assisted suicide in medical-social...
![Turkey: demonstration against the bill on abortion](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img-ivg_256.jpg)
Turkey: demonstration against the bill on abortion
On Sunday 3 June 2012, several hundred women demonstrated in Istanbul in opposition to the proposal made by the Justice and Development Party (AKP), currently in power in Turkey, to submit a bill reducing from ten to four weeks the period during which abortion is...
![Belgium: the Archbishop of Brussels reviews the legalisation of euthanasia](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img-findevie_372.jpg)
Belgium: the Archbishop of Brussels reviews the legalisation of euthanasia
In its edition of Wednesday 30 May 2012, the daily La Libre Belgique published an article by the Archbishop of Brussels, Monsignor André Leonard, reviewing "10 years of the application of euthanasia" in his country. In his article, the Archbishop of...
![Turkey: The debate on abortion is reopened](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img-ivg_254.jpg)
Turkey: The debate on abortion is reopened
After the debate launched on Friday 25 May 2012 by the statement of the Turkish Prime Minister on abortion (Gènéthique press review from 4th to 8th of june 2012), the government intends to "present a bill to Parliament reducing the period of...
![Skin cells of elderly patients used to create heart cells](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img-embryon_289.jpg)
Skin cells of elderly patients used to create heart cells
Recently, Israeli researchers led by Prof. Lior Gepstein have succeeded in "transforming human skin cells into heart cells and grafting them on to rat cardiac tissue." This study, published in the European Heart Journal, consisted of taking "skin cells...
![The discovery of a gene may lead to a male contraceptive](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img-objection_907.jpg)
The discovery of a gene may lead to a male contraceptive
A team of British researchers led by Lee Smith from the University of Edinburgh has discovered a gene that enables "sperm to develop and become mature." In the course of this study, the researchers discovered that the gene Katnal1 was "indispensable for...
![Abortion: “murder”, according to the Turkish Prime Minister](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img-ivg_253.jpg)
Abortion: “murder”, according to the Turkish Prime Minister
The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated on Friday 25 May 2012 that he regards "abortion as murder." He added: "Nobody should have the right to authorise it. Whether you kill the baby in its mother’s womb or [...] after its birth, it...
![Germany: adoption of a bill to increase organ donations](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img-don_organe_67.jpg)
Germany: adoption of a bill to increase organ donations
On Friday 25 May 2012, a bill aimed at reforming the law on organ transplants was adopted by a large majority of the German parliament from all parties. Currently in Germany, a donation of an organ from a deceased person can take place only if the person explicitly...
![Is the eugenics against the disabled persons a human right?](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/41_cedh_47juges_2.jpg)
Is the eugenics against the disabled persons a human right?
This is the question to which the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is obliged to answer in the case Kruzmane vs. Latvian. Chocked by the nature of this question, European associations specialized in disability mobilize to make their voices heard, those of...