News - Announcements

March 2008

Council of Europe: A PACE committee recommends the decriminalisation of abortion in all Council of Europe member states (18.3.2008)
Strasbourg, 18.03.2008 - In a report published today, the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) calls on member states which have not already done so to decriminalise abortion.

Egypt's thriving organ trade (13.3.2008)
The country has no laws regarding transplants and little oversight. A kidney can go for as much as $7300 in Egypt.

British MPs back plan to allow artificial sperm and eggs for IVF (9.3.2008)
MPs are planning a change in the law to allow babies to be conceived from artificial sperm, a move described by opponents as playing God with human DNA.