Danish ethicists advise their government not to legalise euthanasia
The Danish Council on Ethics has advised Denmark’s parliament against legalising euthanasia. A report endorsed by 16 of the council’s 17 members concluded that it...
Denmark: parliament pressured to OK euthanasia
A proposal to legalise euthanasia in Denmark has broken the threshold of 50,000 signatures to put it before the Danish Parliament for the first time....
Denmark to investigate shameful campaign of population control in Greenland in the 60s and 70s
Between 1966 and 1975 Danish doctors implanted intrauterine devices (IUSs) in half of the indigenous women in Greenland to promote health and to stop the...
How Denmark has become the solution to Belgium’s sperm donor drought
Belgium has a sperm donor shortage because it has abolished donor anonymity. This is leading women to use Danish sperm banks. According to recent media...
Danish ethicist opposes euthanasia in BMJ
A former chair of the Danish Council of Ethics has published a broadside on legalised euthanasia in The BMJ. Ole Hartling, a doctor, author and...
Will IVF reverse falling birth rates?
With birth rates in Europe sinking to unprecedented lows, one country seems to have bucked the trend. At the moment Denmark has a birth rate...