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Donating one’s face after euthanasia: when death on demand turns the body into a resource
In autumn 2025, the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona performed a face transplant on a patient suffering from a bacterial infection. In twenty years, around fifty transplants of this type have been performed worldwide (including six in Spain). In this case, the face transplant was performed using a donor who had...
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Between hope and organ shortage, uterus transplants raise ethical questions
For the first time in Belgium, a child has been born following a uterus transplant. To date, 65 children have been born in this way around the world. This small number is due to the difficulty of finding uterus donors....
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The Netherlands: opening of foetal biobank has led to surge in donations of foetal tissue after abortion
According to a study published in 2024 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, donations of foetal tissue after abortion have increased significantly in the Netherlands, from 1.2% (8 donations out of 663...
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From induced death to useful death: increasing organ donation after euthanasia in Quebec
According to a study by the Canadian Medical Association Journal published in January, the number of organ donors who die by euthanasia in Quebec has risen from 4.9% (8 out of 164 donors) in 2018 to 14% (24 out of 171...