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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 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: 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 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…
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Image: Accra, Ghana | Source: Shutterstock Twenty African governments have backed a draft charter asserting national sovereignty over family policy, abortion, agriculture, natural resources, and international agreements, in a significant rejection of pressure from Western governments and international institutions. The African Charter on Family, Sovereignty and Values, adopted at a…
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Image source: Shutterstock New York’s controversial assisted suicide law has come into force, allowing doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill adults despite sustained opposition from Catholic leaders, disability advocates, and pro-life campaigners. The Medical Aid in Dying Act took effect on 5th August after being signed by Governor…
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Image Source: LAPD | David Anthony Burke mugshot The murder trial of 21-year-old rapper and singer D4vd continues in California after he pleaded not guilty to killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He is also charged with having a continued sexual relationship with her, a minor. In recent court proceedings text…
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Image Source: Shutterstock Roman Catholic religious sisters and healthcare organisations are suing the State of New York over its forthcoming assisted suicide law, arguing that it would force them to participate in practices that violate their religious beliefs. Ten Catholic plaintiffs filed the lawsuit, including the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne,…
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Australia’s governing Labor Party has voted to support the removal of federal legal barriers preventing euthanasia consultations from taking place by telephone or video call, while also changing its constitution to allow MPs a conscience vote on future voluntary assisted dying legislation. The measures were approved at the Australian Labor…
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Image Source: Shutterstock A senior German politician has resigned after admitting that he and his husband became parents through surrogacy in the United States, despite having spent years defending Germany’s ban on the practice. Jens Spahn, parliamentary leader of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a former health…
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France has moved a step closer to legalising assisted suicide after the country’s National Assembly voted to approve controversial legislation despite the French Senate rejecting the Bill on three separate occasions. The legislation, one of President Emmanuel Macron’s flagship social reforms, would create a legal right to assisted suicide for…
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Spain’s conservative People’s Party (PP) has inadvertently fanned the flames of the country’s abortion debate after introducing new family support measures that recognise unborn children when calculating eligibility for certain benefits. The legislation, introduced by the PP government in the Madrid region, allows expectant parents to apply for some family…
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Image Source: Shutterstock A same-sex couple in Canada has launched a lawsuit against the surrogate mother who carried their son after she refused their request to abort the baby when doctors identified a cleft lip and a possible heart defect during pregnancy. The case, filed in Ontario Superior Court, has…