Interuniversity Congress: “AUTONOMY AND FREEDOM” JULY 14 UCV

The Bioethics Observatory of the Catholic University of Valencia has organized, on July 14, 2022, within the framework of the Summer Courses, the Interuniversity Congress “Autonomy and freedom: Bioethical limits” that aims to carry out a bioethical analysis of conflicts derived from the application of the principle of patient autonomy in today’s society. Ethical conflicts…

The Netherlands opens the door to euthanasia for children under 12

The DutchNews.nl reported  that Dutch Health Minister Ernst Kuipers announced the intention to extend euthanasia to children, but without changing the law. Kuipers intends to extend the Groningen Protocol, which currently applies to babies, to include children under the age of 12. An article by Peter McLaren Kennedy for EuroWeekly stated:   The proposed protocol contains seven criteria for…

‘Roe v. Wade’ is no more

In 1973, the US Supreme Court in a controversial decision ruled that no state of the United States could absolutely prohibit abortion during the first six months of pregnancy. In practice, this created a fundamental right to abortion in the US within a certain time period, even though the constitution did not refer to the…