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Surrogacy
The UN calls for a global ban on surrogacy in the name of women's and children's rights
In a report presented on July 14, 2025, to the United Nations General Assembly, the UN Special reporter on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, strongly condemned the practice of surrogacy, which she advocates for international abolition. The report argues that surrogacy “is characterized by exploitation...
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Legalization of assisted suicide in Slovenia
[UPDATE: Following the referendum in November 2025, the entry into force of this law was canceled]
On July 18, 2025, Slovenia joined the small number of countries that allow assisted suicide.
Medically Assisted Reproduction
Towards high-tech embryo selection: Nucleus Embryo or the unlimited choice of the perfect child
The American company Nucleus Genomics now offers parents genetic optimization as an additional tool to increase the chances of their child being healthy. The new Nucleus Embryo technology allows parents who are...
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Euthanasia and disability: what does the UN criticize about the French bill?
Although the National Assembly adopted the bill on “the right to die with assistance” at first reading on May 27, 2025, debates on this bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide seemed to be on hold pending the...
Medically Assisted Reproduction
European AMP scandal linked to a donor carrying a cancer-causing gene: how far can we control gametes without lapsing into eugenics?
In May 2025, the Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AFMPS) in Belgium confirmed a biovigilance alert concerning the gametes of a Danish donor who carried the TP53 gene mutation, a mutation that carries a risk of cancer in offspring. However, it also emerged that the rule in Belgium limiting...
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
France - What's in the plan to legalise assisted suicide?
Since this week, the French National Assembly has been examining in public session two bills relating to the end of life. The first concerns ‘palliative and supportive care’, while the second deals with ‘aid in dying’....
Surrogacy
In Spain, surrogacy carried out abroad considered contrary to public order
In Europe, surrogate motherhood has become a new area of legal and ideological confrontation. The stakes are high: the desire for a child is at stake, as are the lives and dignity of many women, often in precarious...
Illness & Disability
Alzheimer's: predicting the onset of disease to improve treatment
Predicting the onset of Alzheimer's disease in people with a hereditary form could become possible thanks to a genetic model developed by a team of Belgian researchers at the Brain Research Centre of the Flemish...
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Extending euthanasia to include mental health conditions: will Canada have a change of heart?
Genetic modification of human embryos: a gateway to eugenics?
France: Will the government force through the euthanasia bill?
Bereavement leave in the event of euthanasia: will it be possible to change one’s mind?
Belgium – Proposed liberalisation of abortion laws: 12, 14 or 18 weeks – a scientific question or an ethical choice?
Belgium: care for people with disabilities under scrutiny from the UN
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