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...
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...
On Tuesday 9th May, the CESE (Economic Social and Environmental Council) adopted the advice "End of life: Change the law?", in favour of euthanasia and assisted suicide. At the very antipodes of the claimed solidarity, the recommendations contained in the advice, by...
On Friday 12th May, the Portuguese parliament approved a law for the decriminalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. This acceptance comes after the initial text was challenged twice by the constitutional court and faced two vetoes by the Portuguese President....
