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5 May 2010

“Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress” by the Guttmacher Institute. Towards monitoring freedom of research and cure
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4 May 2010

Freedom of research in SOUTH AFRICA – Country report and synoptic table
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26 April 2010

Freedom of research in SPAIN – Country report and synoptic table
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19 April 2010

“Three Courageous Italian Scientists — An Example for Louisiana” by Barbara Forrest*
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6 April 2010

The Law 40/2004. Five years of hindrance of assisted reproduction in Italy
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26 March 2010

Assisted reproduction in Turkey by Asli Tolun, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Boğaziçi University
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23 March 2010

“Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Steps Back, Steps Forward” by Andrea Boggio* & Andrea Ballabeni**
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23 March 2010

REVIEWED! Freedom of research in IRELAND – Country report and synoptic table
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17 February 2010

Freedom of research in SWEDEN – Country report and synoptic table

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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“Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress” by the Guttmacher Institute. Towards monitoring freedom of research and cure

Freedom of research in SOUTH AFRICA – Country report and synoptic table

Freedom of research in SPAIN – Country report and synoptic table

“Three Courageous Italian Scientists — An Example for Louisiana” by Barbara Forrest*

The Law 40/2004. Five years of hindrance of assisted reproduction in Italy

Assisted reproduction in Turkey by Asli Tolun, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Boğaziçi University

“Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Steps Back, Steps Forward” by Andrea Boggio* & Andrea Ballabeni**

REVIEWED! Freedom of research in IRELAND – Country report and synoptic table

Freedom of research in SWEDEN – Country report and synoptic table

Contacts

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