On June 9, 2016, the End of Life Options Act, a law that allows terminally ill adults to take an aid-in-dying medication, went into effect in California. Three weeks later I got an email from Betsy, an artist at the end of a three-year battle with ALS. She’d met with doctors, filed paperwork, and picked the date when she could self-administer the drug.
Vyriausybė įpareigojo Sveikatos apsaugos ministeriją parengti tvarką, pagal kurią būtų galima apsaugoti donorų teisę į privatumą bei vaikų, gimusių tokiu būdu teisę žinoti, kas yra jų biologiniai tėvai.
Matthew is one of a number of UK patients who have bypassed the traditional NHS system of organ allocation, instead harnessing the power of the internet to find their own.
Abortion within 90 days of pregnancy has been legal in Italy for almost four decades. But in this strongly Catholic country, most doctors who can carry them out are conscientious objectors – in some areas of southern Italy, 83% of doctors refuse to carry out the procedure.
Doctors can withdraw life support from a sick baby with a rare genetic condition against his parents’ wishes, a High Court judge has ruled.
A Michigan pediatrician declined to treat the infant daughter of a lesbian couple in yet another example of the growing tensions between advocates for LGBT rights and those who want greater religious expression protections.
A Swedish midwife who refuses to carry out abortions is appealing to a labour tribunal after being turned down for jobs at local clinics three times.
A 20-year-old man, who was originally born female, is the first in the UK to become pregnant through sperm donation after the NHS refused to pay for egg freezing.
