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Palliative Care
“End of life stories” to prepare for death: the Amfora association renews the approach to palliative care
What is important to me? How do I see my life? What does death mean to me? These existential questions can be difficult to address at the very end of life. Yet they are essential and can help us to live through this special time with greater peace of mind.
Illness & Disability
Guy Dembour, a life devoted to revolutionizing the approach to disability
Dr Guy Dembour's mission is to highlight the special abilities of children with Down's Syndrome, focusing on their potential rather than their deficiency. A cardiopediatrician and founder in 2001 of Constridel, a...
Abortion
France and Belgium: abortion remains an icon of ideological battles
On January 30, at the French National Assembly, a large majority of deputies voted in favor of a bill to enshrine women’s “guaranteed freedom” to have an abortion in the Constitution. The text still has to be examined...
Surrogacy
Olivia Maurel, born through GPA, testifies to the wounds this practice inflicted on her
"I’m unable to stay silent while I still struggle with the traumatic legacy of surrogacy" Now aged 31, Olivia Maurel is testifying publicly for the first time about the trauma generated in her by the surrogacy from...
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Analysis: the Mortier case: the ECtHR assessing the Belgian euthanasia law for the first time
In a judgment delivered on Tuesday, 22/10/2022, the European Court of Human Rights considers that Belgium violated the right to life of a patient euthanized because of depression in 2012.
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
BREAKING NEWS - The Belgian Constitutional Court rejects the appeal relating to the 2020 law on euthanasia
In a judgment published on Thursday February 17, 2022, the Constitutional Court of Belgium rejects the action for annulment of the law of 15 March 2020 amending the legislation on euthanasia.
Freedom of Conscience
Bioethics & Conscience Conference - October 4th in Brussels
Over the last few years, in Europe and Western countries, freedom of conscience of healthcare professionals has been progressively challenged as legal access to certain ethically controversial practices has expanded....
Abortion
Sexuality and abortion: The European Parliament Adopts the Matic Report
In plenary session in Brussels on Thursday June 24, the European Parliament adopted (378 votes in favor; 255 against; 42 abstentions) the resolution and report "On the situation of sexual and reproductive health and...
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Surrogacy: between freedom-restricting contracts and eugenic abortions
Euthanasia in cases of advanced dementia: a further extension of Belgian law?
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