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Mexico’s Supreme Court expands conditions for access to abortion
Mexico has just legalized abortion if the mother's health is at risk. The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) ruled Wednesday that women will now be able to receive a legal abortion if the pregnancy poses a risk to the mother's health. Until now, the two...
U.S. fertility rate drops to record low
In 2018, about 3.7 million babies were born in the United States, a 2% decrease from 2017, according to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This holds true for all ethnic groups. It is the greatest...
Dr Sanchez sets 20 May as the date to start implementing Vincent Lambert’s euthanasia
"I inform you that the cessation of treatment and the continuous deep sedation evoked during the collegiate procedure will start in the week beginning 20 May," Dr Sanchez, Vincent Lambert's doctor, announced last Friday in a letter to the patient's family. ...
Reimbursed or remunerated? Belgian oocyte donors receive up to €2,000 per donation
"A friend told me it was a good way to make easy money," explained Chloé, a 23-year-old Belgian student who plans to use the €2,000 to buy a car or go on holiday. Sylvie has already received €8,000 for her four oocyte donations, which she used to "finance work in her...
In Italy: the non-biological parents of children born by surrogacy are not the legal parents
Reversing a 2017 court decision, the Italian Court of Appeal has ruled that the non-biological father of two children born to a surrogate mother abroad could not be designated as the children’s legal parent. In this case, a homosexual couple used an oocyte donor and a...
Egg ‘donations’ in China can be paid up to €50,000
According to the Beijing Youth Daily, young Chinese female students who volunteer to donate their oocytes receive "payments" for "subsistence costs" that can be more than 400,000 yuan, i.e. about €50,000. The survey published yesterday by the Chinese newspaper reveals...
The UK High Court approves sex reassignment of a four-year-old child
The UK High Court found that a four-year-old child "had suffered no harm" from the full sex reassignment operation decided on by his parents. Following the operation and after the parents sent their son to school in a girl's uniform, social services had wanted to take...
Infertility, MAR and cancer risk: an American study
The journal Human Reproduction has published a study entitled Cancer Risk in Infertile Women: Analysis of US Claims Data. This research shows a link between infertility and increased cancer, although it cannot specify whether infertility itself, the causes of...
Clandestine abortions in Morocco: dismantling a network and legal proceedings
At the end of April, a clandestine abortion network was dismantled in the city of Marrakech, in Morocco. Six of its members will be tried on 24 May, including two medical interns, a medical student and a pilot who was in charge of importing medicines from Spain. The...
Transgender women at higher risk of developing breast cancer
During the sexual transition period, transgender people may have to undergo hormone treatment to induce their physical changes. A Dutch study published in the BMJ shows that transgender women (born male) have a higher risk of developing breast cancer compared to the...
Cambodia: 11 surrogate mothers released on bail
Eleven Cambodian surrogate mothers arrested in November (see Surrogacy in Cambodia: fifteen new arrests in Phnom Penh) were released on bail last month "in return for promising not to sell their child". According to Chou Bun Eng, vice-president of the Cambodian...
Vincent Lambert: the urgent applications judge refuses to apply the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
On Wednesday, the Paris Administrative Court rejected the urgent appeal of Vincent Lambert's parents for a suspension of the procedure decided by Vincent’s doctor to stop their son's care. The parents invoked "the serious and manifestly unlawful violation of the right...