March Archive

Mum and dad lite: parenting without sex, romance, co-habitation or marriage

27 March 2021 | Link

tags: co-parenting, reproductive revolution

A ‘new phenomenon picking up speed’

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Tasmania becomes third Australian state to pass euthanasia

27 March 2021 | Link

tags: euthanasia, tasmania

The new law will come into effect next year 

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Dutch euthanasia criticised in leading medical journal

27 March 2021 | Link

tags: euthanasia, netherlands

The slippery slope is real, says an American doctor

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New Chinese law bans alteration of human genome

27 March 2021 | Link

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Retrospective legislation justifies the jailing of He Jiankui

‘Armenia is facing a demographic catastrophe’

27 March 2021 | Link

tags: armenia, demography

Caught between low birth rates, high infertility and high emigration

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Commissioning parents panicking over surrogate mothers’ vaccinations

27 March 2021 | Link

tags: coronovirus, surrogacy

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the surrogacy industry

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Amitai Etzioni wants Biden to form bioethics commission

27 March 2021 | Link

tags: bioethics, joe biden

Very concerned about genetic engineering

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Mouse embryos grown in vitro by Israeli researchers

21 March 2021 | Link

tags: ectogenesis, stem cell research

Opens up possibility of organ harvesting

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Several research groups create ‘artificial’ embryos

21 March 2021 | Link

tags: iblastoids, stem cell research

iBlastoids which could bypass the need for stopping research at 14 days

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Spain becomes the fifth country to legalise euthanasia

21 March 2021 | Link

tags: euthanasia, spain

‘Today we are a more humane, just and freer country,’ says Prime Minister

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Portugal’s high court rejects euthanasia law

21 March 2021 | Link

tags: euthanasia, portugal

A split court agreed that the bill lacked ‘the necessary rigour’ 

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Russia’s liberal surrogacy laws under threat

21 March 2021 | Link

tags: russian, surrogacy

‘Russia is not an incubator,’ says deputy speaker of Duma

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Britain’s first birth control clinic opened 100 years ago

21 March 2021 | Link

tags: eugenics, marie stopes, racism

But historians say that it is entangled with eugenics and racism

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What do Quebec doctors think of organ donation euthanasia?

21 March 2021 | Link

tags: canada, euthanasia

A survey yields interesting comments

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Does plastic threaten the survival of the human race?

14 March 2021 | Link

tags: birth rates, infertility, plastics

A new book gathers the figures on growing infertility

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