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Ban on adoption of Russian children by Belgians

Russian Lower House MPs have asked the Foreign Ministry to study the recently passed law allowing child euthanasia in Belgium in order to decide if its citizens should be legally banned from adopting Russian kids.

17 February 2014

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Canada : no to euthanasia and assisted suicide

BC Court of Appeal upholds protections in law from euthanasia and assisted suicide. The Supreme Court of Canada is next.

22 October 2013

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A call to make assisted suicide available to prisoners

Writing on the Oxford University blog Practical Ethics, Christian Browne, a young British doctor and bioethicist, argues that the plight of prisoners is essentially the same as the terminally ill. A life sentence behind...

11 October 2013

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BBC accused of ‘bias’ in favour of assisted suicide

The BBC has been accused of acting as a “cheerleader” for assisted suicide by broadcasting campaigners' views on national television without opposition. (The Telegraph)

25 September 2013

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Most doctors opposes physician-assisted suicide, poll finds

Whether doctors should help patients die continues to be a hotly debated topic within the medical community, a New England Journal of Medicine poll finds. The journal questioned readers about a hypothetical near-death case and received more than 2,000 valid responses. Roughly two-thirds worldwide—including 67 percent of replies from the...

25 September 2013

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Euthanasia : “too many, too much for me !” says Dr Sarah Van Laer

Dr Sarah Van Laer, who has euthanased 28 patients since legalisation in 2002, has complained bitterly to the Belgian newspaper De Standaard about the burdens of her work.

29 June 2013

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Put disabled babies out of our misery, say Dutch doctors

In a new policy document, “Medical decisions about the lives of newborns with severe abnormalities” ( in Dutch only ) the KNMG explains why it is acceptable, and perhaps even necessary, to euthanase children. This is no...

26 June 2013