12-year-old gunshot victim declared in ‘vegetative state’ now talking: will make full recovery
Doctors pressured Zach’s parents to sign an organ donation consent form.
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Bioethics
Canada honours prominent eugenicist
Dr Helen MacMurchy, now a "person of national historic interest," believed "illegitimate children in turn victimized society with their inferior genetic makeup," an historian said.
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Romney warns of health care rationing by ‘an unelected board’ in first debate
“We don't need to have a board of 15 people telling us what kinds of treatments we should have,” he said.
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Nigerian Catholic doctors association rejects USAID abortion, egg harvesting money
The caregivers' organization has formed a plan "to counter this aggressive anti-Life mission sponsored by the United States' Obama administration."
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One in five ‘brain dead’ patients still alive, claims lawsuit
The suit outlines the ghoulish worst-case scenario, in which living patients are having their organs removed by organizations motivated by profit.
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Sneak attempt to pass UN treaty thwarted in Senate
This treaty “promote[s] the idea that government, not parents, have the ultimate voice in decisions concerning their children," a critic said.
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Sperm-donor father of 43 children passed on genetic disorder
The man was allowed to continue donating, despite national rules in Denmark restricting donors to 25 times.
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Canada’s new ‘brain death’ criteria slammed as scheme to increase organ donations
The new criteria allow doctors to declare a patient "brain dead" days, or even weeks earlier - but are they really dead?
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European court ruling creates ‘right to eugenics’
The European Court of Human Rights says parents have the right "to have a child free from the disease."
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Italy must allow embryo genetic screening because of unrestricted abortion law: Euro court ruling
Because Italy allows parents to abort disabled babies, it must also allow them to screen out "defective" embryos said the court.
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