Showing posts with label Netherlands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Netherlands. Show all posts
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Prolific sperm donation and incest risk in the Netherlands

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 The Guardian has the story: ‘Medical calamity’: dozens of Dutch sperm donors fathered at least 25 children .  Discovery that clinics have b...
Friday, April 18, 2025

MAID in the Netherlands, together

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 The Guardian publishes a moving photo, and an interview with the photographer about his parents' decision to avail themselves of medica...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

Medical aid in dying debated in NY, extended in the Netherlands

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 Here are two related stories, one from the NYT about a debate on whether to allow medical aid in dying in New York State. The other is from...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Medical aid in dying, together, in the Netherlands

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The Guardian has the story: Duo euthanasia: former Dutch prime minister dies hand in hand with his wife. Dries and Eugenie van Agt, both 93,...
Friday, July 7, 2023

Regulating legal prostitution isn't easy, even in Amsterdam

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 The NYT has the story: Amsterdam Tries to Dim the Glare on Its Red-Light District . The mayor wants to improve the neighborhood for residen...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Medical aid in dying: access for children, and for mental illness

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Two recent articles discuss whether there should be categorical limits on medical aid in dying (MAID).  In the Netherlands, the law now perm...
Monday, October 10, 2022

Ambivalence on recreational cannabis in Amsterdam

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  The Guardian has the story: Amsterdam considers banning ‘cannabis tourists’ from its coffee shops. Fed up with stoned visitors and worried...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Opt out organ donation in England and the Netherlands

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  Jansen, N. E., Williment, C., Haase-Kromwijk, B. J. J. M., & Gardiner, D. (2022). Changing to an Opt Out System for Organ Donation—Re...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

School choice in Amsterdam: a counterfactual analysis

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  Forthcoming in the JPE ( It looks like the refereeing process worked its magic on this paper, whose first version was distributed in 2015....
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Selection of Dutch doctors by lottery

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 Here's a recent article describing the once and future Dutch selection of medical students by lottery. (I believe that residency positi...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

International adoptions temporarily halted in the Netherlands

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 The decision by the Netherlands to indefinitely ban international adoptions has generated some controversy.   The NY Times has the story: N...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Medically assisted dying, at any age, in the Netherlands

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 The NY Times has the story: Netherlands to Allow Doctors to Help End Lives of Terminally Ill Children--Hugo de Jonge, the Dutch health mini...
Monday, July 6, 2020

Netherlands now has opt out deceased donor registration

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The Netherlands Times has the story: NEW DONOR REGISTRY OPT-OUT RULE TAKES EFFECT TODAY By Janene Pieters on Wednesday, 1 July 2020 ...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

Parents in Dutch surrogacy (proposal: as many as four...)

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An English language idiom refers to "Dutch uncles," but now there is something new in Dutch parentage, aimed at regularizing pare...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Frequencies of medically assisted death, in jurisdictions where it is legal

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From the Lancet: Regulation of assisted suicide limits the number of assisted deaths Gian Domenico Borasio, Ralf J Jox, Claudia Gamondi ...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

Medically assisted death

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The Guardian and the BBC bring us up to date on death with dignity in the Netherlands. Here are some excerpts from the Guardian's lon...