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2 October 2017

Thousands Rally in Dublin Against Ireland’s Abortion Ban
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28 July 2016

Last Charges Dropped Against Abortion Foes in Making of Planned Parenthood Video
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8 July 2016

Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Abortion Restrictions
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12 June 2016

Republicans’ Latest Attempt to Discredit Fetal Tissue Research
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30 April 2016

Oklahoma Lawmakers Approve Bill to Revoke Licenses of Abortion Doctors.
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21 April 2015

Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister announces plans to reform abortion laws
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17 April 2015

Wisconsin: Judge Strikes Abortion Law
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11 July 2014

A Unanimous Supreme Court: Abortion Rights Lose a Buffer.
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7 July 2014

Peru finally implements abortion law after 90 years.

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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Thousands Rally in Dublin Against Ireland’s Abortion Ban

Last Charges Dropped Against Abortion Foes in Making of Planned Parenthood Video

Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Abortion Restrictions

Republicans’ Latest Attempt to Discredit Fetal Tissue Research

Oklahoma Lawmakers Approve Bill to Revoke Licenses of Abortion Doctors.

Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister announces plans to reform abortion laws

Wisconsin: Judge Strikes Abortion Law

A Unanimous Supreme Court: Abortion Rights Lose a Buffer.

Peru finally implements abortion law after 90 years.

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