SPUC (London) – Jan. 12, 2017 A new fertility procedure that could allow sperm and eggs to be made from people’s skin may lead to “embryo farming” on a massive scale and drive parents to have only “ideal” children, researchers have warned. IVG The procedure, in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) involves reprogramming adult cells into a…
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The Times of Malta published a New Year’s interview of Chief Justice emeritas Vincent De Gaetano, of the European Court of Human Rights in Malta, conducted by Matthew Xuereb. Xuereb asked Justice De Gaetano about euthanasia, assisted suicide, and Vincent Lambert, who was severely brain-injured in an accident in 2008. Justice De Gaetano responded: One cannot…
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Huffington Post, Canada (09.01.2017) The Carter decision to allow assisted suicide and euthanasia claimed that Canada could avoid abuses through careful guidelines and screening. Medically facilitated elder abuse by greedy relatives and medicalized suicide for the depressed — a grim reality where this practice is legal — were supposed to be avoidable, said the judge,…
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Religión en Libertad (09.01.2017). La ley canadiense que promueve la eutanasia es aún más permisiva que las leyes belga u holandesa, hasta el punto de que el inicio de su aplicación se ha traducido en un número elevadísimo de muertes. La eutanasia en Canadá fue legalizada en junio de 2016 y por lo menos 744…
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Aciprensa (3/11/2017) – El Ministerio de Sanidad Español publicó el pasado 30 de diciembre que durante el año 2015 se realizaron 94.188 abortos en un total de 200 centros en todo el país. Los datos publicados muestran que en el año 2015 se practicaron 608 abortos menos que en el año anterior y es la…
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Dozens of women may have had eggs fertilised by sperm cells from someone other than the intended father, say Dutch authorities The Guardian (U.K.) – A Dutch medical institution has launched an investigation after discovering that up to 26 women’s eggs may have been fertilised by the wrong sperm at its IVF laboratory. A “procedural error”…
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The news on right-to-life issues in the United Kingdom Peter D. Williams Right to Life The last two months in the UK have seen the beginning of the We’re All Equal campaign, which supports the Abortion (Disability Equality) Bill. This Bill, introduced by disabled peer Lord Shinkwin, would repeal section 1(1)(d) of the Abortion Act 1967, which allows for abortion…
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Alex van Vuuren, Schreeuw om Leven In October the Dutch government came with a new initiative for a law regarding euthanasia. This new law will expand the existing legal euthanasia practice in The Netherlands, but will be a separate law. A parliamentary committee earlier this year however had clearly stated that an expansion of the…
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by Anne-Marie YIM, for FORUM VITAE/ONE OF US LUXEMBOURG Luxembourg, despite its christian roots and traditions, is one of the most liberal country in Europe regarding pro-life issues: abortion (1978), euthanasia (2009), abortion for minors (2012), same sex marriage (2014) have been long legalized at a highly speed pace agenda and now the battleground has moved…
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Andrew Barclay, natural de Folkestone (Reino Unido), murió después de tomar una dosis letal de barbitúricos en un apartamento de “Dignitas”, cerca de Zurich, después de haber viajado a Suiza con su esposa Sandra para que se le aplicara allí la eutanasia por la imposibilidad de hacerlo en Reino Unido. La historia fue contada en…
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