MP Kees van der Staaij of the Reformed SGP party in the Netherlands argues for this in parliamentary questions to the Minister of Legal Protection, Franc Weerwind. Van der Staaij’s questions come in response to the Casablanca Declaration. Experts worldwide presented a statement in Casablanca, Morocco, calling on governments to ban surrogacy and end the practice. Van der…
In February, in response to Opinion 139 of the National Ethics Advisory Council of France, thirteen organizations representing 800,000 French health workers rejected euthanasia, including doctors, nurses, auxiliary nurses. They published the document “Can causing death be considered care?”, which denounces the current situation in France in reference to euthanasia. “At a time when the French health…
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, proposed last March 8 to register the “freedom” of abortion for women in the Constitution, an initiative that already took its first steps in France in response to the Roe vs. Wade ruling in the United States. The president announced the measure, which will be part of a bill on…