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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 was possible, given that the 2007 Belgian law limits the number of women who can receive gametes from...
News Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Belgium: Bioethics Advisory Committee in favour of extending advance euthanasia declarations to persons who have become incapable of deciding for themselves
In an opinion issued on 10 November 2025, Belgium's Bioethics Advisory Committee unanimously recommended amending the law on euthanasia to extend the scope of advance euthanasia declarations. The Committee proposed that...
News Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
What suicide prevention policy should be adopted in a country that allows euthanasia for depression?
The recent death by euthanasia of Siska, a 26-year-old woman suffering from depression, has reignited the debate on mental health care in Belgium, but also on the consistency between access to euthanasia for mental...
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 Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Slovenia backtracks on assisted suicide: what arguments won the day in the referendum?
On 23 November, the Slovenian people voted to repeal the law legalising assisted suicide, which had been passed by Parliament a few months earlier.
Passed on 18 July 2025 by the majority of MPs, this law opened the way to assisted suicide not only for terminally ill patients, but also for other patients...
News Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
“Death with dignity” bill in Uruguay: euthanasia could be ob-tained in just a few days
Uruguay would become the first country in Latin America to legally decriminalize euthanasia if the bill approved by the House of Representatives on August 13, 2025, is passed by the Senate.
News Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Euthanasia and assisted suicide: what does really distinguish these two practices of planned death?
Several European countries (particularly France and the United Kingdom) are currently considering the legalization of certain forms of “assisted death.” Slovenia has just authorized assisted suicide, while excluding the...
News Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Euthanasia - Do the UN's criticisms of the French bill also apply to Belgium?
On 10 September, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) presented its conclusions on the French bill on the ‘right to assistance in dying’.
This procedure – particularly rare for the CRPD –...
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