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Perinatal bereavement – Belgium: towards the possibility of burial for all stillborn foetuses, regardless of gestational age?
In its Opinion No. 90 published at the end of 2025, the Belgian Bioethics Advisory Committee examined the ‘Funeral destination of foetuses that are stillborn at an early gestational age’. Among its recommendations is the possibility for all parents to organise a funeral or arrange for the burial of the remains of a...
News Medically Assisted Reproduction
From embryo screening to eugenics: how private companies circumvent national legislation
Even as assisted reproductive technology (ART) becomes increasingly widespread (+19.7% between 2015 and 2022...
News Medically Assisted Reproduction
European IVF scandal: at least 197 children conceived using a donor carrying a cancer-causing gene (including 53 in Belgium)
On 7 January, the Belgian Federal Parliament's Health and Equal Opportunities Committee heard from Public Health Minister Franck Vandenbroucke about the gamete scandal. MPs are seeking to find out how such an overrun...
News Abortion
ECHR condemns Poland: delayed publication of a ruling restricting access to abortion undermined legal certainty
In a judgment handed down on 13 November 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned Poland for violating the right of respect for private and family life of the applicant, a Polish national who travelled...
News Surrogacy
Constitutional reform in Slovakia: ban on surrogacy and reaffirmation of national sovereignty in bioethics
On 26 September, the National Council of the Republic adopted a series of amendments to the Slovak Constitution, including several changes aimed at strengthening national sovereignty on various issues, including bioethics.
The constitutional reform was adopted by three-fifths of MPs – exactly the minimum majority required for constitutional reform – thanks...
News Surrogacy
The UN calls for a global ban on surrogacy in the name of women's and children's rights
In a report presented on July 14, 2025, to the United Nations General Assembly, the UN Special reporter on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, strongly condemned the practice of...
News Medically Assisted Reproduction
Towards high-tech embryo selection: Nucleus Embryo or the unlimited choice of the perfect child
The American company Nucleus Genomics now offers parents genetic optimization as an additional tool to increase the chances of their child being healthy. The new Nucleus Embryo technology allows parents who are...
News Medically Assisted Reproduction
European AMP scandal linked to a donor carrying a cancer-causing gene: how far can we control gametes without lapsing into eugenics?
In May 2025, the Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AFMPS) in Belgium confirmed a biovigilance alert concerning the gametes of a Danish donor who carried the TP53 gene mutation, a mutation that carries a...
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