The Medical Liabilities Act, which is currently being discussed by the House of Representatives’ Health Committee, permits abortions only in cases where pregnancies are life threatening or if or if the fetus has a disorder that makes it "incompatible with life" — raising in our minds the spectre of state-sanctioned eugenics. Abortions will be illegal under all other circumstances, which presumably includes rape cases. Women must receive written permission and a detailed report from doctors before undergoing the procedure, Egypt Today reports. Other features of the law include holding doctors liable for errors made due to “ignorance, negligence or lack of care,” bans euthanasia and assisted dying, and banning cloning (Egypt’s underground cloning scene must be shivering).

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