Human reproduction

A study of demographic developments in Communist Albania from 1960 to 1980, published on Friday, shows that many more women had abortions despite the pressure from the state to have children.

An active sex life is important to couples’ happiness, and they don’t have to go at it like rabbits: Those who make love once a week are happiest, a new study suggests.
More frequent sex isn’t a buzzkill for a relationship. It just doesn’t pack the same punch, Canadian researchers reported in the Nov. 18 journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Greece might have one of the lowest birth rates in the world with only 100,000 new births registered last year, but it also has n average of 300,000 abortions a year! The data, which sheds light on the acute demographic problem facing the country, is based on a survey conducted by the professor of medical and biological chemistry of the University of California, Mr. M. Gkokas.

Several thousands Poles wearing black clothes participated yesterday in protest rallies in several Polish cities for women's rights, celebrating the first anniversary of mass protests against an almost implemented ban on abortion, Reuters reported.

A coalition of rights NGOs, the Platform for Gender Equality, has urged Macedonia's new government, elected in May, to scrap changes made to the Abortion Law in 2013 by their conservative predecessors, which they insist undermined women's rights.

The Health Ministry has initiated work to outlaw surrogate motherhood in Turkey and seeks to have the relevant law changed, introducing a jail sentence of between two and five years for those found guilty of the act. 

Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their third child. And for the third time - as with her previous two pregnancies - the former Kate Middleton is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, or severe morning sickness.

Annually, the state will allocate nearly BGN 3 million more to finance another in vitro procedure, reported BGNES.

The Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office has demanded up to five years in jail for a man on charges of marketing banned medicine as an "abortion pill" on various Internet sites, daily Habertürk reported on Aug. 10

An Australian nurse and two Cambodian assistants were found guilty of running an illegal commercial surrogacy clinic in Cambodia on Aug. 3 and sentenced to 1-1/2 years in prison.