by Collectif | 25 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
On Monday, Portuguese President, Anibal Cavaco Silva[1], vetoed a law authorising adoption by homosexual couples. Parliament voted on this law in December with a left majority. The Socialist Party announced “that it wished to confirm the law by an absolute...
by Collectif | 22 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
On 14 January, the Quebec Court of Appeal made a “major” judgment authorising “a homosexual couple to adopt the child born to a surrogate mother”. In 2014, the two men asked a female friend to carry the child conceived by IVF. At the request of the surrogate mother,...
by Collectif | 21 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Professor Nick Macklon, Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton (Great Britain), has developed a new in-vitro fertilisation technique, AneVivo. Using this technique, “fertilisation occurs in the natural environment of the uterus...
by Collectif | 19 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
For Swisstransplant, the Swiss national foundation in charge of organ donation and transplantation, 2015 was “the best year for organ donations in Switzerland”: 143 people who died donated their organs in 2015 (i.e. 17.4 donors per million inhabitants), compared to...
by Collectif | 19 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Conscientious objection
In the United States, several institutions and Christian educational institutions“have submitted a request to the Supreme Court within the scope of the hearing organised by the latter in March on the Obamacare ‘Contraceptive Mandate[1]”. This focuses on the case...