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Australia
Australian court rejects ‘wrongful birth’ claim
Xavier Symons | 10 May 2013 |
The concept of 'wrongful birth' has suffered another defeat, this time in Australia.
Australian think tank backs euthanasia
MIchael Cook | 27 April 2013 |
A new Australian think tank has issued a call for the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Australian Senate condemns organ trafficking in China
Xavier Symons | 30 March 2013 |
Lobbying by Falun Gong, a quasi-religious movement banned in China, has scored a public relations coup in Australia.
Suicide deaths rise in Australia after promotion of illegal drugs
Xavier Symons | 16 March 2013 |
More and more Australians are importing the illegal lethal drug pentobarbitone from overseas as a way of committing suicide.
The gamete market comes Down Under
Xavier Symons | 16 March 2013 |
An Australian fertility clinic, Monash IVF, has taken the radical step of importing eggs from the US, at a cost of A$19,000 per package.
Australians debate commercial surrogacy
Michael Cook | 14 December 2012 |
Should Australia legalize commercial surrogacy?
Australia launches inquiry into forced sterilisation of disabled
Michael Cook | 03 November 2012 |
Australia regards itself as a champion of human rights, but in 2011 the United Nations Human Rights Council has detected an abuse – the involuntary sterilisation of women and girls with disabilities
IVF young adults are well-adjusted and happy, say researchers
Michael Cook | 03 November 2012 |
An Australian study has found that IVF-conceived children are just as well-adjusted and satisfied with life as naturally-conceived children.
Another “Doctor Death” in Queensland?
Michael Cook | 14 July 2012 |
After the international publicity given to "Doctor Death", the last thing the Australian state of Queensland needs is bad publicity about bad doctors. However, the state government is investigating reports that a hospital doctor was responsible for several deaths.
Psychiatrists slate law to seek children’s consent
Jared Yee | 17 March 2012 |
Psychiatrists have criticised draft West Australian laws that would require mentally ill children as young as 12 to consent to sterilisation, electroconvulsive therapy and psychosurgery.
Queensland man jailed over assisted suicide
Michael Cook | 18 February 2012 |
A Queensland man has become the first to be sentenced to a full-time jail term for assisting a suicide. Merin Nielson, 50, received a six-month sentence for supplying an 76-year-old friend, Frank Ward, with the lethal drug Nembutal in 2009.
Organ donation overhaul contentious
Jared Yee | 17 December 2011 |
A New South Wales government proposal to prevent families from overturning their deceased relatives’ wishes on organ donation has garnered mixed reactions.
Wrong twin aborted in Australian mix-up
Michael Cook | 25 November 2011 |
Australia has been rocked this week by a “selective reduction” gone wrong at a leading Melbourne hospital. A woman was pregnant with twins whom she had already named. At 32 weeks doctors detected significant heart abnormalities in one of the twins and advised her to abort the child. He would have had to have years of operations if he survived at all.
Are older mums selfish?
Michael Cook | 22 October 2011 |
An Australian obstetrician was heaped with scorn and ridicule earlier this month when he declared that women who deferred having children until their mid-30s were ''selfish and self-centred''. Barry Walters, of King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, said that they tended to have more medical problems and would be a burden on their children in their twilight years.
Nitschke makes headlines again
Jared Yee | 01 October 2011 |
Dr Philip Nitschke, founder of euthanasia group Exit International, made headlines yet again this week when he announced that he will import the suicide drug Nembutal to Australia.
Should sperm donors be anonymous?
Jared Yee | 08 September 2011 |
The rights of sperm donors to anonymity are being reviewed in Australia.
Sydney sperm donor removed from birth certificate
Michael Cook | 20 August 2011 |
A Sydney sperm donor has been erased from his 10-year-old daughter’s birth certificate and replaced with the lesbian partner of the biological mother.
Australian minister’s IVF child provokes IVF debate
jared Yee | 20 August 2011 |
IVF is in the headlines in Australia again after Federal Finance Minister Penny Wong announced last week that she and her lesbian partner Sophie Allouache are to have a baby.
Donor could be erased from Sydney birth certificate
Michael Cook | 06 August 2011 |
Imagine this. You are the biological father of nine-year-old daughter, although you are not living with the mother. You have helped to support the mother. You have contributed thousands of dollars to your daughter’s education and upkeep. You have been in contact with her every day of her life.
Sex offenders edge closer to IVF access
Jared Yee | 05 August 2011 |
Over 50 convicted sex offenders and child abusers may be allowed to have children using IVF after a Victorian Civil and Adminstrative Tribunal ruling last week.
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