Are Dutch doctors too willing to euthanise people with autism and intellectual disability?
Will legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide lead to unnecessary deaths because of an able-ist bias against intellectual disability and autism? The records of Dutch euthanasia...
Euthanasia in Quebec: seamless service at a friendly funeral parlour
In Quebec, the number of cases of euthanasia has risen from 63 in 2015-2016 to 3663 in 2021-2022. Nowadays many patients find it difficult to...
Against commercial-assisted suicide
The journal Bioethics recently published an attack on commercial assisted suicide (CAS). The author, Yoann Della Croce, condemns it as “morally indefensible and practically inefficient”....
Norway to export sperm
Danish sperm banks have grown into a successful export industry. Now Norway seems to be following the same path. The Norwegian Directorate of Health has...
Denmark: parliament pressured to OK euthanasia
A proposal to legalise euthanasia in Denmark has broken the threshold of 50,000 signatures to put it before the Danish Parliament for the first time....
Australian judges need to review standards for gender dysphoria treatment
Most judges and lawyers in Australia know little about the white-hot debate amongst doctors over appropriate treatment for gender-dysphoric children. A survey of the latest...
Singaporean women should think twice before freezing their eggs
The Singapore government recently announced that the age limit for egg freezing would be extended from 35 to 37 years of age. An article in...
A dark corner of transgender history
The early 20th century physician Magnus Hirschfeld, who was German, Jewish and gay, is widely praised as a transgender pioneer. In 1919 he founded the...
What is that bright light at the end of the tunnel?
Reports of near-death experiences -- with tales of white light, visits from departed loved ones, hearing voices, seeing Heaven -- capture our imagination. The fact...
Why is California lagging behind Canada in assisted dying?
In 2016 both Canada and California legalized assisted dying. But from then to 2021, 31,664 Canadians – 3.3% of all deaths -- died under Bill...
Canadian prisoners are choosing euthanasia but the public is none the wiser
Canada is the only country which regards euthanasia for people incarcerated in prisons as a human right. Nine prisoners have received euthanasia in the seven...
Is Mother’s Day more fun when there are three of them?
A New Zealand court has approved an adoption of a boy named Kaspar who has three mothers. The first is a commissioning parent, a woman...