A top court in Slovenia has ruled that a ban on same-sex couples marrying and adopting children is unconstitutional in this European country and has ordered its parliament to amend the law within six months to ensure they can do so. Constitutional Court judges ruled 6-3 on both issues on Friday, saying Slovenia’s laws allowing…
Law experts point out that conscientious objection, until now admitted in international treaties, is currently in danger. So you have to defend it. Conscientious objection is a judgment of an ethical nature -which is not equivalent to subjectivity, tendency, taste, habit or desire- but is about the resistance that the person offers to comply with a…
The interview that La Contra section of La Vanguardia has conducted with the Indian researcher Seema Jayachandran who, wanting to reinforce the story of feminism, falls into a contradiction that confirms the injustice that abortion entails. Jayachandran is questioned about why the new generations of Indians lack women throughout the interview. The researcher explains that abortion has…
An overwhelming majority of Americans believe abortion should not be legal after 15 weeks, according to a poll conducted after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. A new Harvard-CAPS poll found that 72 percent of Americans think abortion should be allowed only until the 15th week of pregnancy. Moreover, the 15-week threshold has bipartisan support…
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 betrayal of the EU and its fundamentals In a new resolution approved with 324 votes in favor, 155 against and 38 abstentions, the European Parliament (EP) has requested this Thursday that abortion be included in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, in article 7, adding that “everyone has the right to a safe…
Thousands of people have packed Dublin’s city centre streets at the Rally for Life on July 2nd as supporters from around the country attended the biggest pro-life event of the year. It was the first in-person national pro-life march since 2019 because of Covid restrictions, and organisers say the crowd will energised by the overturn…
Following the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States to overturned the case Roe v. Wade, activists in favor of abortion see their business-based lobbies in danger at the cost of the lives of the unborn and of women. This position of justice drives them to find an ally in the European Union…
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…
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…
