by Collectif | 1 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In Northern Ireland, the sentencing of two young women who had abortions (see Northern Ireland: suspended prison sentence for woman who took abortion pills) “will encourage new MPs to try and change the law,” announced Susan McKay, Northern-Ireland...
by Collectif | 1 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Geneva University Hospitals announced “a world first incarrying out a liver transplant between two HIV positive subjects in October 2015”. Two uncertainties remained at the time of the transplant: would a new and difficult to treat HIV strain be transmitted? Would the...
by Collectif | 27 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
As announced last week (seeReturn of Surrogacy to the Council of Europe), the Council of Europe will review Petra de Sutter’s surrogacy report on 2 June. According to Marie-Anne Frison Roche, “the guidelines of this report have not been modified”, and the aim is still...
by Collectif | 27 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
CRISPR or the “irrepressible temptation to reinvent the human genome”. Should we “prepare ourselves for the birth of a ‘CRISPRbaby’ in the future?” “How should we organise democratic dialogue on this kind of subject”? An international meeting was organised at...
by Collectif | 27 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Conscientious objection
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) met with 25 other major religious pro-life and health care organisations on 19 April to ask the United States Chamber of Representatives to adopt the Conscience Protection Act (H.R. 4828). The signatories...