20 years of assisted suicide in Oregon
The main reason for requesting aid in dying, overwhelmingly, is lack of autonomyOregon’s Death With Dignity Act (DWDA) is the benchmark for proposals for assisted...
Assisted suicide debated in Australia
Two states introduced bills this weekWhile currently overshadowed by an even more contentious debate over same-sex marriage, proposals for legalising assisted suicide are bubbling away...
How far does a right to a child extend?
Another instalment in the Reproductive Revolution, this time from California and Georgia. In 2015, 51-year-old Chester Shannon Moore Jr engaged a surrogate mother in California...
A Nobel Prize for bioethics?
There is a gap in the Nobel Prizes: there's no award for bioethics. There is the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize for Medicine...
Belgian euthanasia under the microscope
For better or worse, this week’s newsletter seems largely dedicated to topics revolving around euthanasia. Belgium’s system is finally getting the close critical scrutiny it...
First interdisciplinary study of Belgian euthanasia published
Highly critical study is a warning for other jurisdictionsA book from Cambridge University Press to be released next week takes a critical look at euthanasia...
Only 2 children euthanised in 3 years in Belgium
Head of euthanasia commission releases statisticsThe news that the Belgian parliament had legalised euthanasia for children under 18 made news around the world in 2014....
R-rated short promotes ‘assisted dying’ in Australia
Go Gentle Australia plays hard ball with harrowing filmAn R-rated snuff movie is an original way to promote euthanasia. But it is the marketing tactic...
BFF of Selena Gomez donates kidney
No details about the arrangement have been releasedAmerican pop singer Selena Gomez received a kidney transplant from her best friend, she revealed this week. Ms...
Let’s make surrogacy professional
Two New Zealand academics want the government to regulate the marketSome surrogate mothers in California / Surrogate Alternatives Two New Zealand academics have proposed a...
Is Planned Parenthood a Nobel Prize candidate?
Planned Parenthood is an organisation which inspires both love and loathing. One of its admirers is the Lasker Foundation, which has just presented it with the Lasker~Bloomberg...
Planned Parenthood wins prestigious Lasker Award
For services to reproductive health Planned Parenthood, the world-wide foundation for promoting reproductive health care and sex education, has won the 2017 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service...