Today, November 27, 2025, marks four years since Justo Aznar’s passing. Aznar was the first director of the Institute of Life Sciences, which includes the Bioethics Observatory of the Catholic University of Valencia. This is a fitting occasion to reflect [...]
The Supreme Court of the state of Iowa (USA) has decided to ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. This decision marks a significant change in the state’s abortion law, aligning with more severe restrictions implemented in other states. Historically, [...]
On May 11, Richard Slayman, the first living recipient of a pig kidney transplant, died. The death occurred two months after the intervention. As we previously published, on 21 March Massachusetts General Hospital announced the success of the first organ [...]
On November 9, the Congress of Peru approved Law No. 785, which recognizes the conceived child as a subject of law. Therefore, the new norm protects the rights of conceived and unborn children by determining that human life begins with [...]
From October, children conceived in the United Kingdom since April 2005 through assisted reproduction techniques that have used donor eggs or sperm will be able to know the identity of their biological parents. The changes in the Law regarding sperm [...]
Mark Gordon, Wyoming state governor, has signed into law a bill banning the prescription and use of abortion pills. Wyoming is the first state to specifically ban the sale of these pills, although other states have policies that almost completely [...]
The World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC) has opposed the appointment of the economist Mariana Mazzucato as a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. The prestigious international association that was born in 1966 and is based in the [...]
The Jérôme Lejeune Foundation and the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life have launched a free e-book “Keys to Bioethics”, which makes the contents of the ‘Bioethics Manual for young people’ available to all. The Jérôme Lejeune Foundation itself [...]
The Oklahoma House of Representatives has given its final approval to a bill that almost totally bans abortion, so those who carry out this procedure will face fines of 100,000 dollars and sentences of up to 10 years in prison. [...]
The development of new tools in medicine thanks to technology has also produced that their indiscriminate use can cause the relationship between doctor and patient to be lost in delicate moments that would require a more empathic treatment in the [...]
David Bennett, the first man to have a pig heart transplanted two months ago, has died at the age of 57. The heart came from a genetically modified pig to facilitate organ compatibility and reduce the immune rejection response of [...]
The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics has recently reported 10.62 million births during 2021, 1.4 million less than in 2020. A new unprecedented minimum since 1950, despite the efforts of the authorities to increase the birth rate. In an attempt [...]
