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JULY 18, 2022

The study offered participants a prompt drawn from classical debates in bioethics on the ethical status of advance directives — documents composed while at full cognitive abilities that direct certain medical treatment in the event that the author later loses mental capacity.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 6, 2024

The federal government did not challenge this decision and instead amended the law in 2021 to expand access to MAID to individuals whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable. Attorney General of Canada. The Court struck down the “reasonably foreseeable” requirement as violative of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There is no specific regulation governing such research in the U.S.; it’s just that the federal government won’t fund the research. The post What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos first appeared on Bill of Health. To date, most, if not all, U.S. The original article can be found here.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 18, 2024

Advocates for commercial surrogacy argue that financial incentives alone do not compromise informed consent and in fact, a lack of payment for surrogacy services could be exploitative. This could take the form of adapting and expanding an existing convention such as the 1993 Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption.

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