Although the 2nd August 2021 bioethics law partly authorised access to their origins for children born by Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) with a third-party donor, it is not until 2043 that children who so wish will systematically have access to the identity of...
The ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) has issued a judgement on the sensitive issue of post mortem assisted reproduction and the export of gametes or embryos. The facts Two recently widowed women, have lodged an appeal with the ECHR concerning the prohibition in...
During the World Suicide Prevention Day, Bundesärtzkammer, the German medical association, praised the resolution for the prevention of suicide adopted by a strong majority at the Bundestag, after the German members of parliament rejected two texts intended to...
The Commission on end-of-life care has called upon doctors in Quebec practicing euthanasia, officially designated as "Medical Assistance in Dying (MAD), to follow the law more strictly. Indeed, the exponential increase in the number of euthanasia in that Canadian...
On 6th September 2023, Sudinfo revealed that a Belgian woman in her thirties suffering from terminal cancer had been smothered by two nurses using a pillow following a failed euthanasia attempt. The young 36-year-old woman was suffering from cancer and in December...
LEGAL CONTEXT IN CANADA OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING Medical Assistance in Dying (MAD), i.e. euthanasia, has been available in Canada since 2016 in the context of the so-called Law C-14. Initially, it was available only to those people whose death was reasonably...
For the 4th consecutive year, the "Fertility and Parenthood" exhibition will be held on the 2nd and 3rd September in Paris. This year it has been renamed using the English wording "Wish for a Baby", the exhibition was previously known as "désir d’enfant (wishing for a...
Detailed analysis of the costs of medical assistance in dying in Canada. According to a study published in 2017 prior to the vote on law C-14, budgetary cost savings had been estimated at between 35 and 137 million dollars per year. In 2016, law C-14 authorised...
Animal welfare, animal rights, such expressions are in widespread use without necessarily explaining what they mean. This lack of precision may in fact be an intentional communication strategy: to be “against animal welfare” would be out of place. At a time when...
The new deferment of the bill on growing old comfortably and the absence of any road map on old age throws doubt on the priorities of the government at a time when the sector is suffering from a cruel lack of both means and personnel. On Tuesday 18th July, on the...
