The European federation ONE OF OS has received with concern the opinion of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women on the Polish People’s Initiative for the Protection of the Right to Life of Persons with Disabilities before birth. We recall that international law does not recognize the concept of “reproductive rights”, which is…
By : Bioethics Observatory – Institute of Life Sciences UCV The Catholic University of Valencia’s Bioethics Observatory has given a lecture at the European Parliament in Brussels as part of the annual Week for Life which One of Us participates since the launch of the European Citizens’ Initiative. The lecture was given by Dr Enrique Burguete, anthropologist and delegate…
Brussels March 22, 2018.- On March 20, 2018, the European One of Us Federation has celebrated the Ordinary General Assembly in the European Parliament, in Brussels and has participated in the Week for Life Session. Once again, representatives of the civil organizations from the One of Us Federation have gathered at the headquarters of the…
A “baby factory” was discovered in a Bangkok apartment in the summer of 2014. Common paternity was quickly established through DNA tests (see “Baby factory” in Thailand – doctor ready to give himself up to the police”). Wealthy Japanese heir, Mitsutoki Shigeta, has just been granted permission to keep his thirteen children born to surrogate mothers…
On April 15, Madrid, heart of life The platform of, Sí a la vida, is calling the civil society to a large march to celebrate the International Day of Life, since 2011 is commemorated every March 25. This year, as it occur simultaneously with Holy Week, the central event will take place on Sunday, April…
Induced abortion is one of the most current problems in social and healthcare sector, it is known as well as deliberate, elective or voluntary abortion. It is a complex issue that adds to its strictly medical side, some other of legal nature, moral, sociological, religious and demographic issues. Despite the facts that only a…
Every year, 1,000 Belgians are given a lethal injection without requesting it. This point was highlighted on 29 January by Doctor Marc Cosyns[1], during the trial of Ivo Poppe, the nurse accused of murdering about twenty people (see Belgium: former nurse accused of administering euthanasia to dozens of patients”). Marc Cosyns has always said that there…
International Seminar Palliative and Social Care vs. Euthanasia
In the United States, the FDA has approved “the very first algorithm to monitor vital signs in patients in order to predict potentially fatal events a few hours before they occur”. Developed by the ExcelMedical Company, this form of “artificial intelligence” detects “subtle changes in vital signs and issues warnings up to six hours before a potentially fatal event occurs”. The…
Copyright: The Conversation, Academic rigor, journalistic flair. We’d all like to be a little happier. The problem is that much of what determines happiness is outside of our control. Some of us are genetically predisposed to see the world through rose-colored glasses, while others have a generally negative outlook. Bad things happen, to us and in…