assisted suicide Archivi - World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research

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19 April 2017

Widow of Italian Right-To-Die Protagonist Turns Herself In
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28 February 2017

Gorsuch Staunchly Opposes ‘Aid in Dying.’ Does It Matter?
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22 May 2016

Justin Trudeau Elbows Lawmaker in Parliamentary Quarrel in Canada
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20 September 2015

California legislature approves bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide
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12 June 2015

California Senate approves hotly debated physician-assisted suicide bill
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30 April 2015

For first time in Israel, court permits euthanasia for terminal patient
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17 November 2014

A New Face on the End-of-Life Debate
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22 March 2014

Tasmania’s euthanasia bill fails narrowly

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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Widow of Italian Right-To-Die Protagonist Turns Herself In

Gorsuch Staunchly Opposes ‘Aid in Dying.’ Does It Matter?

Justin Trudeau Elbows Lawmaker in Parliamentary Quarrel in Canada

California legislature approves bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide

California Senate approves hotly debated physician-assisted suicide bill

For first time in Israel, court permits euthanasia for terminal patient

A New Face on the End-of-Life Debate

Tasmania’s euthanasia bill fails narrowly

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