by Collectif | 5 Jul, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In Poland, the draft abortion law presented in March (see Poland: a draft bill to restrict abortion) was presented to Parliament on Tuesday following the collection of 450,000 signatures in support of the bill (100,000 signatures are required to present a bill to...
by Collectif | 4 Jul, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
To increase in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) success rates and even “exceed that observed during natural fertilisation”, British scientists have put pressure on the HFEA[1] to authorise a test “to evaluate the ‘energy quality’ of embryos conceived by IVF”[2], which...
by Collectif | 4 Jul, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In England, a young woman agreed to carry the child of a homosexual couple she met on a surrogacy Facebook page. During the one and only brief meeting in a fast-food restaurant, the three people concerned completed a document downloaded from the same site, which...
by Collectif | 3 Jul, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Cloning
According to experts, ever since the cloning of the ewe, Dolly, the question surrounding human cloning has become “complicated, risky and ethically questionable to the extent that other methods have taken precedence”. Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned....
by Collectif | 3 Jul, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
The American Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal case versus Sequenom and Ariosa, two companies marketing the non-invasive screening test for Down Syndrome (see United States: Sequenom asks Supreme Court to rule on the patentability of NIPS). ...