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The Netherlands: opening of foetal biobank has led to surge in donations of foetal tissue after abortion
Author / Source : EIB Published on : News Temps de lecture : 2 min.
According to a study published in 2024 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, donations of foetal tissue after abortion have increased significantly in the Netherlands, from 1.2% (8 donations out of 663 abortions) to 21.7% (132 donations out of 609 abortions), following the creation of a Dutch foetal biobank. For the authors of the study, incorporating donation options into post-abortion advice could ‘ethically improve tissue acquisition for continued medical progress’.
Proposed extension of Belgian euthanasia law: critical feedback from the Netherlands
Author / Source : EIB Published on : News Temps de lecture : 3 min.
Hearings are continuing in the Federal Parliament on the proposed law to extend euthanasia to people who have become incapable of expressing their wishes, on the basis of an advance declaration. On Wednesday 22 January, two experts from the Netherlands presented the implications of such an extension, based on the Dutch experience. Their informed and critical experience provided food for thought about the social and ethical implications of extending euthanasia to patients who are no longer...
Netherlands: Legalization of the euthanasia of children between the ages of 1 and 12 without their consent.
Author / Source : IEB Published on : News Temps de lecture : 1 min.
In 2022, this same professor said: "Euthanasia is not the right word, because the law on euthanasia does not apply here. [Euthanasia] is based on the capacity to give consent, which the patient can request for his or her own end of life. These children are not always capable of doing so. Active interruption of life is the right term". Beyond the impossibility for these children to consent to such a serious and irreversible act, the major ethical concern remains the fact of considering...