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...
European Parliament deputies call for abortion to be made a ‘fundamental right’
France’s decision to include a right to abortion in its constitution has revived moves to include it in European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights. “Deciding about one’s...
How not to report an assisted suicide
Thursday in Sydney, where BioEdge is located, is a few hours ahead of Thursday in Switzerland, the day when 72-year-old Hal Malchow plans to die...
After inserting abortion in France’s constitution, Macron tackles euthanasia
French president Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will back legislation to legalise "aid in dying" for terminally-ill adults. A report last year claimed that most French...
Scientists move step closer to making IVF eggs from skin cells
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed a promising technique for creating artificial eggs. In the journal Science Advances they described the process: they transferred the...
The long march begins: assisted dying in Ireland
Ireland probably has the most explicitly Christian constitution in the world. Its preamble begins: “In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority...
Licence of London fertility clinic suspended after losing embryos
After a decision by the Supreme Court of Alabama in a case about the destruction of embryos sent ripples around the world, errors in IVF...
Health authorities in England block puberty blockers
British children with gender dysphoria will no longer be given puberty blockers, says the UK government health authority, the national health service (NHS). This is a...