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![UN: the definition of the right to life is under debate](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/55_onu_12.jpg)
UN: the definition of the right to life is under debate
The UN Committee on Human Rights is currently reviewing its definition of "right to life" in international law through its mission to interpret the provisions of the international Pact on civil and political rights. In September, the European Centre for Law...
![Ban on abortion based on prenatal screening for Down syndrome in Ohio: draft bill adopted by the Lower House](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/usa_19.jpg)
Ban on abortion based on prenatal screening for Down syndrome in Ohio: draft bill adopted by the Lower House
On 1 November, the Ohio House of Representatives approved a draft bill banning abortions based on prenatal screening for Down syndrome. The document aims to introduce sanctions against doctors who perform abortions under these circumstances. It has yet to be approved...
![Franck Stephens, with Down syndrome, addresses the American Congress](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/franck_stephens.png)
Franck Stephens, with Down syndrome, addresses the American Congress
Last week, Frank Stephens, actor, Special Olympics[1]athlete and promotor, presented his life experiences to the United States Congress : "I am a man with Down Syndrome and my life is worth living ". Rather than "proceeding with prenatal screening...
![Canada: Assisted suicide for minors – paediatricians questioned more and more](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/toddler-1245674_640_0.jpg)
Canada: Assisted suicide for minors – paediatricians questioned more and more
Since the legalisation of assisted suicide in Canada, in June 2016, paediatricians are being increasingly questioned about assisted suicide, by minors and parents alike. A survey carried out at that time already showed that paediatricians were in favour of extending...
![The World Medical Association is still vehemently opposed to euthanasia and assisted suicide](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/world_medical_association-1080x675.jpg)
The World Medical Association is still vehemently opposed to euthanasia and assisted suicide
The World Medical Association (WMA) and its national member medical associations including the Australian Medical Association, have strongly reiterated their long-standing opposition to physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia on the basis that they constitute the...
![United Kingdom: Treatment stopped for a female patient in a minimally conscious state](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/03_fin_de_vie_alimentation_37.jpg)
United Kingdom: Treatment stopped for a female patient in a minimally conscious state
In the United Kingdom, a judgement has just been passed on a 72 year-old "paralysed" woman whose care has been the subject of a family feud. The guardianship judge in Preston believes that the treatments "keeping this patient alive" can be stopped....
![MAP (medically assisted procreation): New generation embryo sequencing would serve no purpose](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/14_sequencage_adn_35.jpg)
MAP (medically assisted procreation): New generation embryo sequencing would serve no purpose
A study presented at the Annual Congress of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Texas, has shown that new generation sequencing (NGS), "deemed to be the future of in-vitro fertilisation", would "not be beneficial" for most patients....
![Committee on Disabilities: the prenatal selection of disabled babies is discriminatory](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/55_onu_13.jpg)
Committee on Disabilities: the prenatal selection of disabled babies is discriminatory
In a General Comment originated from the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) concerning the principles of equality and non-discrimination, the UNO committee in charge of disabilities declared: “States parties should address stigmatization...
![United Nations: abortion on disability grounds denounced](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/01_ivg_img_42.jpg)
United Nations: abortion on disability grounds denounced
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has stated in an official document that abortion on the grounds of foetal disability is contrary to the Convention relating to the rights of persons with disabilities[1]. In the same document, the...
![Euthanasia: Criminal investigation in the Netherlands against a doctor](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/09_fin_de_vie_110-693x675.jpg)
Euthanasia: Criminal investigation in the Netherlands against a doctor
For the first time since euthanasia was legalised in the Netherlands, a doctor who administered a lethal injection against a patient's wishes - an 80 year-old female with dementia (see the Netherlands: female patient "given euthanasia against her wishes") - could face...
![In England – clinic staff forced to encourage women to undergo abortion](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/04_ivg_img_63.jpg)
In England – clinic staff forced to encourage women to undergo abortion
This month, fifty years on from the legalisation of abortion in England in 1967, the Care Quality Commission[1] (CQC) published the results of a general inspection of the Marie Stopes Clinic in Maidstone[2]. The report suggests that staff at the establishment...
![Carmat: first artificial heart implantation in Kazakhstan](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/02_don_dorganes_20.jpg)
Carmat: first artificial heart implantation in Kazakhstan
On Monday, 23 October, Carmat announced that it "had successfully carried out […] the first artificial heart transplantation" in Kazakhstan, "without giving the precise date of the operation". This procedure was performed in Astana, at the National...