US joins list of countries offering non-binary passports
The United States has begun issuing passports for gender-nonconforming people.
Canadian funeral homes break into the MAiD market
Canadian funeral homes have discovered a way to make money out of medical assistance in dying. During the Covid-19 pandemic people needed a clean, quiet, comfortable venue where they would die.
Euthanasia leaves Aboriginal Australians even more vulnerable
In 2018 Labor Senator Pat Dodson, a Yawuru man from Broome, Western Australia, gave a speech in Federal Parliament on voluntary assisted dying from an...
University of Pittsburgh in hot water over foetal tissue research
The use of foetal tissue at the University of Pittsburgh is becoming a hot political issue. Several Republicans are calling for an investigation into the...
Massachusetts begins to issue 3-parent birth certificates
Massachusetts, a bellwether state for social change, has issued its first three-parent birth certificate. Joyce Kauffman, a family law attorney, explained to the abovethelaw.com website that state...
Canadian parliament refuses to condemn sex-selective abortion
According to the United Nations, “around 140 million women are believed to be ‘missing’ around the world – the result of son preference, including gender-biased...