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Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Euthanasia in Belgium : 10 years on
May 28, 2012 marks the 10th anniversary of the legalisation of euthanasia in Belgium, with the Netherlands following suit a year earlier and Luxembourg doing the same in 2009.
Case law text - Affaire V.C. c. Slovaquie / Stérilisation
Arrêt V.C. c. Slovakia du 8 novembre 2011, Req. n° 18968/07
Embryo
Case law text - Judgment in case Oliver Brüstle v. Greenpeace e.V. / Embryo research
Judgement of the Court in case Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace e.V., 18 October 2011, C-34/10
Medically Assisted Reproduction
Legislative text - Rules on medically assisted procreation
This legislative text is available in PDF format. Please refer to the attached document for the complete legal provisions.
Abortion
Legislative text - Law / abortion in Italy
The Legalization of Abortion: Law 194 of the Italian Republic, 1978n Law No. 194 of 22 May 1978 on the social protection of motherhood and the voluntary termination of pregnancy. (Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana, Part I, 2 May 1978, No. 140, pp. 3642-3646).
Organ Donation
Legislative text - Resolution WHO Human organ and tissue transplantation
Aware of the growing magnitude and utility of human cell, tissue and organ transplantation for a wide range of conditions in low-resource as well as high-resource countries;
Medically Assisted Reproduction
Case law text - Affaire S.H & Others c. Austria / PMA
Arrêt S.H. and others c. Autriche, Req. n° 57813/00
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