by Alexis DUPORT | 21 Oct, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
Judging the situation in France regarding children born through surrogacy to be “intolerable”, EDSR[1] senators have just filed a draft bill authorising French birth certificates to be issued for children born abroad through surrogacy. The single...
by Alexis DUPORT | 5 Oct, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
On September 20th, the Dutch Minister for Health announced that the NIPT would be available for all pregnant women from April 1st 2017 and mostly reimbursed by social security [2]. This decision is based on a technical report of the health council, that compared NIPT...
by Alexis DUPORT | 5 Oct, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
In April 2016, Poland was moved by the failed abortion of a baby with Down syndrome, born alive at 24 weeks of pregnancy. It cried for one hour, abandoned, before dying. The event had a strong impact and both Pro-life and pro-abortion mouvements reacted. They...
by Alexis DUPORT | 4 Oct, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
Can one speak of a right to abortion? It comes as the ultimate question on this “Global day of action for safe and legal abortion”. In order to answer this, Génèthique interrogated Grégor Puppinck who wrote “Droit et prévention de l’avortement en Europe[1] (law and...
by Alexis DUPORT | 4 Oct, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
September 26th is the « World Contraception Day”. For the occasion, Claire de La Hougue and Grégor Puppinck bring forward the paradox of contraception, according to which the number of abortions increases proportionally to the level of contraception [1]. They...