British hospital turned off life support of new-born without parents’ consent
Settlement reached after five years of litigation Sian Hill and James Towers / Caters News Agency, via The Sun A British couple has won a...
US company offers IVF risk test for low intelligence
Not part of a slippery slope, says IVF expert An American genomics company is negotiating with IVF clinics to provide a risk test for embryos...
Assessing the financial side of egg-freezing
A very expensive form of insurance Is egg freezing for social reasons cost-effective? An Israeli IVF specialist argues in Reproductive Biomedicine Online that while egg...
Michelle Obama’s IVF kids
As sometimes happens, most of our stories this week centre on assisted suicide and euthanasia in various jurisdictions. However, our lead story is about Michelle...
Wife critical of journalist husband’s trip to Swiss suicide clinic
‘His death feels unresolved’ Deborah and Simon Binner The journalist wife of a Sky News journalist has written a memoir chronicling her reaction to her...
FGM has fallen over past three decades
Signals success of international initiatives FGM is still widespread in Iraq The prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting among girls up to the age of 14...
Australian assisted suicide a world first
A pastor coerced his wife into committing suicide for the life insurance An Australian man has been jailed for ten years for pressuring his wife...
Will Canada continue to ban advance directives?
Woman uses her euthanasia death to lobby for change Friends bid Audrey Parker good-bye / Chris Donovan, Globe and Mail Audrey Parker, a 57-year-old Canadian...
Normalising assisted suicide
It happened so long ago that the exact details are dim in my mind, but I seem to remember that a nominee for the US...
Surrogacy under threat after Trump vows to remove birthright citizenship
Deals could become legally fraught Bioethics in American politics. Donald Trump’s vow to remove the right to citizenship to babies born in the United States...
Did the leader in California’s governor’s race assist his mother’s suicide?
Gavin Newsom makes a startling admission in interview with The New Yorker More bioethics in American politics. As election day on Tuesday approaches, Democrat Gavin...
Merck & Co attacked after it pulls out of West African deal to supply rotavirus vaccine
Conflicting views on why Merck is selling to China but not to Africa Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co is under fire for ending a six-year...