On 6th September 2023, Sudinfo revealed that a Belgian woman in her thirties suffering from terminal cancer had been smothered by two nurses using a pillow following a failed euthanasia attempt. The young 36-year-old woman was suffering from cancer and in December...
LEGAL CONTEXT IN CANADA OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING Medical Assistance in Dying (MAD), i.e. euthanasia, has been available in Canada since 2016 in the context of the so-called Law C-14. Initially, it was available only to those people whose death was reasonably...
For the 4th consecutive year, the "Fertility and Parenthood" exhibition will be held on the 2nd and 3rd September in Paris. This year it has been renamed using the English wording "Wish for a Baby", the exhibition was previously known as "désir d’enfant (wishing for a...
Detailed analysis of the costs of medical assistance in dying in Canada. According to a study published in 2017 prior to the vote on law C-14, budgetary cost savings had been estimated at between 35 and 137 million dollars per year. In 2016, law C-14 authorised...
Animal welfare, animal rights, such expressions are in widespread use without necessarily explaining what they mean. This lack of precision may in fact be an intentional communication strategy: to be “against animal welfare” would be out of place. At a time when...
The new deferment of the bill on growing old comfortably and the absence of any road map on old age throws doubt on the priorities of the government at a time when the sector is suffering from a cruel lack of both means and personnel. On Tuesday 18th July, on the...
In a detailed 124-page report, the French Audit Office has published a statement on palliative care and is calling for its reinforcement. Under the title “Palliative care, a treatment service which needs reinforcement”, the report was ordered by the President of the...
What are we actually talking about ? "Synthetic embryos", "embryoids", "synthetic human embryos", "imitation embryos", "embryo models", "embryos derived from stem cells", "laboratory copy of human embryos", "blastoids" etc. these are the convoluted designations which...
Various voices are being raised against the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide: politicians, health workers, as well as citizens including those facing handicap. Although far from exhaustive, these stated positions reveal the profound fractures relating...
In its report on its fact-finding mission on the end of life, the social affairs commission of the Senate has recorded its opposition to an opening on "active assistance in dying". During their hearing on 22nd March, Tugdual Derville, the spokesman for Alliance VITA...
A study [1] published by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in JAMA, the Journal of the American Psychiatric Medical Association (December 2022) and relayed throughout the French media indicates that “the suicide rate in women of childbearing age increases...
According to a study published in December 2022 by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, “the rate of suicides of women of childbearing age increases significantly when access to abortion is restricted or abolished”. In an analysis memorandum, Alliance VITA...
