Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Italy criminalizes surrogacy from abroad

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 Italy has banned its citizens from accessing surrogacy in other countries where it is legal.  It will be interesting to see how they enforc...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Medical Aid in Dying Laws in the U.S.

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  JAMA has a review of the current state of medical aid in dying in the 12 U.S. jurisdictions (if Delaware proceeds) that now allow it. Medi...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities.

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  The NYT has the story: California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities. The change will affect Stanford University, the Universi...
Monday, September 9, 2024

Anticipating kidney exchange in Germany in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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   Here's an op-ed in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, celebrating the anticipated beginning of kidney exchange in Germany. Der Volks...
Monday, September 2, 2024

Oregon ends decriminalization of drugs, continues to experiment

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  Here's the story in the Washington Post Hard drugs illegal again in Oregon as first-in-nation experiment ends "Sunday marks the e...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

End Kidney Deaths Act intoduced in Congress

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  Here's the press release from the Congressional sponsors: Malliotakis Introduces Bipartisan End Kidney Deaths Act , August 12, 2024 &q...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Kidney exchange in Germany: draft of a proposed law

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  Yesterday the German Federal Cabinet published the draft of a law that would allow kidney exchange in Germany. Below is the text of the pr...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Repugnance doesn't establish standing in court: Supreme Court reverses Kacsmaryk on medical abortion

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  Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that (for the time being at least) the medical abortion pill  mifepristone should remain le...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Kidney exchange in Germany?

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  A draft law to make kidney exchange legal in Germany, and to allow nondirected donation, is making some progress: here (with the help of G...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Menthol cigarettes get a reprieve

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 The WSJ has the story: Biden Administration Shelves Plan to Ban Menthol Cigarettes . White House had been weighing health benefit of ban ag...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Proposed age-adjusted smoking ban in the U.K.

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  The BBC has the story, about a proposal to ban smoking for everyone currently under the age of 18. (What could go wrong?) What is the UK ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The Ethical Limits of Markets by Kim Krawiec

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 Here's a new summary by one of the leading scholars of "taboo trades." Kimberly D. Krawiec, " The Ethical Limits of Mark...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

New York is about to end its legal ban on adultery

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A 1907 New York state law criminalizing adultery (as a misdemeanor) looks likely to be repealed. New York adulterers could get tossed out of...
Friday, April 5, 2024

Still illegal in Idaho

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  Here's a map from The Hill of places where marijuana will be legal to various degrees by the end of this year. Grey states are where m...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Cannabis in US airports

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  An anomaly of US Federal law is that marijuana is illegal on airplanes (interstate commerce) even when the airports involved are in states...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Mexico’s Law Suit Against US Gun Dealers

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U.S. gun dealers are protected against lawsuits stemming from crimes committed by their customers. by the  Protection of Lawful Commerce in ...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

New Zealand repeals anti-smoking law that would have prevented tobacco sales to anyone born after 2008

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 In an earlier blog post , I wrote about a New Zealand anti-smoking law, saying "And now there's a law that cuts nicotine content o...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

France amends its constitution to protect access to abortion

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  The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v.Wade and end a constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. prompted France to am...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Medical aid in dying--the ongoing debate in Britain

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 The Guardian has this opinion piece, connected to the current debate in England about medically assisted dying, and the slippery slope: I’m...