A recent editorial in the journal Nature has highlighted the alarming rise of complex genetic testing for selecting human embryos in vitro. The emergence of companies offering prospective parents tests based on a "polygenic risk embryo score" prior to in...
On February 15, 2022, the Italian Constitutional Court rejected a request for a referendum on euthanasia, alleging that the text does not ensure the basic protection of human life, especially for the vulnerable ones. At the end of summer 2021, the petition was...
On February 13, under the tradition of direct democracy, voters in Switzerland overwhelmingly rejected a national referendum on the ban on medical testing on animals (79,1% against). In the canton of Basel, voters were called upon to decide whether to amend their...
On 21 December 2021, the French Council of State rejected the Preliminary Question of Constitutionality made by the Swiss association Dignitas to counter the ban on pentobarbital, a drug within the barbiturate class. On September 22, 2021, when Dignitas submitted the...
In 2020 the European Commission put forward a proposal to "ensure that parenthood, as established in one EU country, is recognized throughout the EU so that children maintain their rights in cross-border situations, in particular when their families travel or move...
On November 29, 2021 the President of Portugal vetoed the law decriminalizing euthanasia. In January 2021 this highly controversial legislation was hurriedly pushed through Parliament while the country was facing another wave of the pandemic and had gone under lock...
