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Image Source: Shutterstock France has ordered life insurers to pay out to the beneficiaries of people who die through assisted suicide or euthanasia, prompting concerns that relatives could acquire a financial interest in someone choosing to end their life. The provision forms part of France’s newly approved assisted suicide law…
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Image Source: McKenna West / Facebook The commissioning parents of a baby born with a serious heart condition are reportedly suing surrogate mother McKenna West for more than $100,000 after she refused their request to abort him. Nasheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed filed a countersuit against West, a 28-year-old nurse…
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Image Source: Facebook / Logan Hospital | Baby Miracle and her mother A baby girl born at just 21 weeks and three days has become the most premature baby known to have survived in Australia. Makerita Tanuvasa, affectionately known by her middle name, Miracle, weighed just over 12 ounces at…
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Image Source: Shutterstock More than 30 children, most of them British, are feared to have been conceived through IVF using sperm or eggs from donors their parents did not select, prompting the Foreign Office to update its travel advice for fertility treatment in northern Cyprus. Families who travelled abroad for…
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Image Source: Google Earth MSI Reproductive Choices UK has opened a major new abortion facility in Birmingham, raising questions about why the abortion provider is investing in expanding surgical capacity when almost three-quarters of abortions in England and Wales are now carried out using pills at home. The purpose-built abortion…
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Image source: Shutterstock The bias of the BBC is clear. So is the fallacy of “pro-choice.” Never has that been clearer than today, as the national broadcaster has platformed abortionists concerned that some women in Wales are continuing their pregnancies rather than travelling to England for abortions. BBC Wales sought…
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Image source: assistustolive.com A coalition of disabled and terminally ill people, and allies, have called on Andy Burnham and MPs to halt the assisted suicide Bill until palliative and social care have been comprehensively reformed. In a letter organised by the Assist Us To Live campaign, signatories argue that disabled…
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Image Sources: Shutterstock The final chance to save France from assisted suicide was squandered today, as the country’s Constitutional Council upheld legislation legalising assisted suicide and euthanasia in specified circumstances, clearing a major legal hurdle for one of President Emmanuel Macron’s flagship social reforms. The Council, France’s highest constitutional authority,…
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Image Source: Police Scotland | Courtney Gartshore A Scottish mother who killed her three-month-old daughter by subjecting her to sustained heat from a hairdryer has been sentenced to six years in prison in what a judge described as a “uniquely disturbing and distressing case”. Courtney Gartshore, 28, was convicted of…
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Image Source: Suffolk Police | (L) Lorna Nightingale, (R) Emma Nightingale A woman from Lowestoft who was accused of murdering her 70-year-old mother has said she gave her a fatal quantity of medication after her mother repeatedly asked for help to end her life. Emma Nightingale, 36, was charged with…
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Image Source: Shutterstock Disability rights groups in Malta have called for an expansion of genetic testing on IVF embryos to stop, warning that selecting embryos according to disability or genetic conditions sends a message that some human lives are less worthy of being born. The Thalidomide Survivors Association (TSA) and…
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Image Source: Facebook / McKenna West An unborn baby at the centre of a bitter international surrogacy dispute will receive medically necessary treatment for a serious heart condition after a Texas court intervened to protect his life. McKenna West, an Alaskan nurse carrying the baby she has named Gabriel, secured…
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Image Source: Shutterstock Scientists have moved closer to creating human sperm in the laboratory, a development presented as a potential treatment for male infertility but which also raises profound ethical questions about the creation and destruction of human embryos, and the prospect of deliberately creating children without a mother or…
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Image source: Shutterstock Massachusetts has legalised abortion up-to-birth after Democrat Governor Maura Healey signed legislation removing the state’s previous restrictions on abortions after 24 weeks. Healey signed H.5595, the “Act Prioritising Patient Access to Care”, on Monday, surrounded by a large group of women who applauded as the Governor approved…
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Image source: Shutterstock The family of an 83-year-old Canadian grandmother has alleged that she was euthanised despite previously rejecting assisted suicide on religious grounds and later expressing distress about the decision. Brigitte Stegemann, known to her family as “GG,” died through Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) programme on 10th…