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...
Ohio House passes fetal heartbeat abortion bill
The bill that would ban terminations after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. The Ohio House of Representatives this week passed an abortion bill that...
Euthanasia legislation to be introduced in WA in 2019
The state government has appointed and expert panel to draft a bill. The government of Western Australia plans to introduce euthanasia legislation next year, according...
Women arrested in Cambodia surrogacy crackdown
A court has charged 18 people with violating surrogacy laws. The crackdown on commercial surrogacy continued in Cambodia this week with a major court charging...
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...
Michelle Obama opens up about her IVF children
Both of the Obama's children were conceived via IVF. Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has revealed that her two children were conceived by IVF...
Dutch authorities to prosecute euthanasia doctor
A doctor has never been prosecuted in the history of the Netherlands euthanasia regime. For the first time in the history of the Netherlands euthanasia...
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...