June 7, 2018
(The Guardian) – Pressure is growing on the government to reform Northern Ireland’s restrictive abortion laws after the supreme court concluded that they are incompatible with human rights legislation. Justices at the UK’s highest court dismissed a legal challenge by … Read More
June 7, 2018
(ABC News) – When will a pregnant woman actually deliver her baby? Right now, it’s pretty much an informed guess — and that’s not just inconvenient, assumptions about when a baby is due can also lead to extra medical procedures … Read More
June 7, 2018
(NPR) – In a clinic on a side street in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, doctors are doing something that, as far as is publicly known, is being done nowhere else in the world: using DNA from three different people … Read More
June 7, 2018
(New York Post) – An appeals court has taken away a Manhattan woman’s frozen embryo — and given it to her estranged husband to destroy. In April 2017, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Deborah Kaplan granted Bat-El Yishay Finkelstein sole custody … Read More
June 6, 2018
(Aeon) – Both in popular culture and in academia, eugenics is thought of as long-past, going extinct shortly after 1945 due to the extreme forms it took in fascist Germany. The Nazi enthusiasm for eugenics led to concentration camps, involuntary … Read More
June 4, 2018
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling that let a pregnant illegal immigrant minor held in federal immigration custody obtain an abortion last year at age 17 over the objections of President Donald … Read More
June 4, 2018
(The New York Times) – Parents will relate to this. We invest as much care in our young ones as we possibly can, but many of us also pass along to them the black box of our genomes. We usually … Read More
May 31, 2018
(Medscape) – Healthcare providers and patients tracking changes to abortion laws in the United States are witnessing a rapidly shifting landscape. One-third of the 1193 state abortion restrictions passed after the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 were enacted … Read More
May 30, 2018
(NPR) – The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to hear a challenge to an Arkansas abortion law that, in practice, bars abortions by pill instead of by surgical procedure. The result is that Arkansas is now the only state … Read More
May 30, 2018
(BBC) – A Canadian MP is proposing that the country decriminalise payment for women who choose to become surrogates. As global demand for Canadian surrogates grows, is commercialising the practice the answer? Leia Swanberg is the only person ever to … Read More
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