Many countries simply make no laws against euthanasia. Swiss doctors are not persecuted if they can prove they acted unselfishly, meaning they must not do it for profit.
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Bioetikos naujienos
Doctors broke law to help 3,000 die
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Adviser sparks infanticide debate
A medical ethics adviser has provoked controversy by comparing the morality of abortion with that of infanticide. Professor John Harris said it was not „plausible to think there is any moral change that occurs during the journey down the birth canal“.
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French row over rights for unborn
French feminists, doctors and the leftwing opposition reacted furiously after the conservative majority in parliament passed a bill making it a crime to cause a pregnant woman to miscarry against her will.
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French Doctor Expected to Be Charged in Assisted Suicide Case
In a surprising twist to a euthanasia case that has captivated the nation, the head doctor of the intensive care ward where a French paraplegic, Vincent Humbert, died six weeks ago is expected to be charged with premeditated murder for injecting Mr. Humbert with poison.
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Euthanasia debate sweeps world
The death of 22-year-old Vincent Humbert is just the latest in a series of high profile euthanasia cases that have changed the issue of assisted suicide from a dark secret, to an openly debated topic in many countries around the world.
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Widow defends assisted suicide trip
The former docker was the first UK citizen to take advantage of the more relaxed Swiss laws. Swiss law does not state that assisted suicide is legal but the practice is widely considered as a „humane act“.
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Genetic embryo screening: Questions grow along with number of procedures
In the United States — though not in Britain—families also can use genetic testing to ensure they have children of a particular sex. Still, doctors say, expanded embryo screening probably is not a slippery slope toward designer babies, not only because the process is costly and difficult but because the number of embryos is limited and finding one that includes a number of desired traits would be very difficult.
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Public debate on hybrid embryos
The public will be asked whether scientists should be allowed to create hybrid human-animal embryos, regulators have announced.
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Hybrid embryo work ‘under threat’
UK scientists planning to mix human and animal cells in order to research cures for degenerative diseases fear their work will be halted.
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Pregnancy test cuts risk to baby
I can foresee ethical problems if the test were to be made widely available – in some countries such as India and China there are significant imbalances in birth frequencies of boys and girls – probably due to selective termination of pregnancies with a female foetus.
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