March 2017 - World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research

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30 March 2017

Canadian surgeons harvesting organs from euthanised patients
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28 March 2017

German Federal Court rules patients should have access to life-ending drugs
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28 March 2017

South Africa overturns euthanasia ruling
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28 March 2017

Voluntary euthanasia: South Australian Parliament knocks back Death With Dignity euthanasia bill
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23 March 2017

Is Passive Euthanasia Finally Going to Be a Legal Reality in India?
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21 March 2017

Gorsuch, Abortion and the Concept of Personhood
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21 March 2017

Almost 450 Quebec patients were euthanised last year
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21 March 2017

Italy Needs Abortion Doctors
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21 March 2017

Controversial Ruling Threatens Abortion Access in Uruguay and Beyond

Research and Self Determination Index

The Research and Self-Determination Index measures the degree of freedom to investigate human biology and to exercise self-determination with regard to our bodies.
Expanding medical knowledge through research, enhancing patients’ well-being through medical treatment, and securing the best available treatment are universal aspirations shared by researchers, health care professionals and patients around the globe.
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Abortion

Abortion and contraception allow women to express their freedom of reproduction by exercising their right of self-determination over their bodies.
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Assisted reproduction

Access to assisted reproduction concerns our ability to expand our freedom of reproduction by offering us the opportunity to have children notwithstanding infertility.
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End of Life

End of life decisions concern our ability to make choices concerning the end of our lives and take of the form of refusal of life sustaining treatment, being help in committing suicide, choosing euthanasia, and make choices that must be upheld even when the person becomes unconscious.
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GM Crops

GM crops have contributed significantly to modern agriculture. Plant breeding using genetic modification techniques has led to improving crops in more targeted ways than classical breeding techniques.
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Research with embryo

Research with embryos and pre-embryos as well as therapeutic cloning concerns scientists’ freedom to investigate human biology as well as patients’ freedom to access regenerative medicine treatments that may be developed as a result of research with human embryonic stem cells.
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Right to science

The human right to science is recognized in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 15(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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Canadian surgeons harvesting organs from euthanised patients

German Federal Court rules patients should have access to life-ending drugs

South Africa overturns euthanasia ruling

Voluntary euthanasia: South Australian Parliament knocks back Death With Dignity euthanasia bill

Is Passive Euthanasia Finally Going to Be a Legal Reality in India?

Gorsuch, Abortion and the Concept of Personhood

Almost 450 Quebec patients were euthanised last year

Italy Needs Abortion Doctors

Controversial Ruling Threatens Abortion Access in Uruguay and Beyond

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