by Collectif | 23 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
“We doctors cannot prescribe a ‘good death’” is the title given to a publication by Seamus O’Mahony, Consultant Physician at Cork University Hospital in Ireland. Sickened by the monthly publication of a new “well-meaning report on deaths and end-of-life care”...
by Collectif | 23 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In the United Kingdom, a senior High Court Judge declared that British legislation discriminates against single-parent families of children born through surrogacy and that UK law in this area contravenes human rights. The claimant in this case was the father, a single...
by Collectif | 22 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
In the United States, a group of scientists is continuing research into hybrid human-animal embryos, despite the NIH[1] moratorium passed last September (see Create human organs in pigs or sheep – fact or fiction?). Pablo Ross, reproduction biologist at the University...
by Collectif | 22 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Friday, Oklahoma Governor, Mary Fallin, opposed the draft bill vetoed by the Senate the day before, aimed at banning abortion except in cases where the mother’s life is in jeopardy (see No abortion ban in Oklahoma). In a press release, she announced that the draft...
by Collectif | 22 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
On Saturday, the March for Life united thousands of people in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. This was the first event of its kind in a country where abortion has been decriminalised since 1978 and is authorised up to the tenth week of pregnancy. The aim of this...