Assisted suicide numbers in Oregon continue to rise
In 1997, Oregon became the first jurisdiction to legalise physician-assisted suicide for people with a terminally illness. Since then numbers have increased year-on-year and this shows no...
Belgian softens penalties for illegal euthanasia deaths
Belgian doctors can be prosecuted if they administer euthanasia without regard to the specified conditions. But however serious the infraction may be, they can only...
What does the world’s ‘low-fertility’ future look like?
Decades of fretting about over-population and encouraging contraception and abortion have succeeded. But the dream of zero population growth has become a nightmare, a new study...
Contradictory attitudes towards people with Down syndrome
March 21st was World Down Syndrome day. The event is supposed to foster awareness of Trisomy 21, as the condition is also called. Modern societies...
The Gambia on track to reverse ban on female genital mutilation
In the United States, Australia, and Europe there can be no cause more popular, more humane, and more progressive than the abolition of female genital...
Some Americans are disposing of their costly frozen embryos
The cost of storing frozen embryos is steadily rising in the United States, prompting some people to have them destroyed. The Washington Post interviewed several people in...
In Scotland 4 out of 10 women choose abortion because they can’t afford childcare
Four in 10 women in Scotland who have terminated a pregnancy say that the cost of childcare was the primary motivation for their decision. Research...
UK medicos at loggerheads over transgender treatment for children
Is a civil war between English doctors looming over transgender treatment for children and adolescents? On the one hand the Cass Review commissioned by England’s...
Is the Biden campaign using abortion as its trump card?
Joe Biden is making abortion rights a central plank in his re-election campaign. Earlier this week he signed a new executive order about reproductive health...
After Supreme Court decision, Alabama protects IVF – but has it gone too far?
Alabama’s legislature and governor moved quickly to protect IVF after its Supreme Court startled the nation by ruling that embryos were “extrauterine children”. This left...
The abortion pill controversy mixes science, law and politics in a toxic brew
Medication abortions accounted for 63% of all abortions in the United States in 2023, according to a report from the Guttmacher Institute. In 2020, only...
How much should you know about the American president’s health?
President Joe Biden is 81 years old. The presumptive Republican nominee in November, former President Donald Trump, is 77 years old. Biden has been mercilessly...