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...