by Collectif | 18 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Several hospitals around the world (United States, Brazil, Sweden and the United Kingdom) have been taking part in an international study since 2006 in order to “evaluate the long-term effects of stem cell transplantation”. In this respect, the Royal Hallamshire...
by Collectif | 17 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
On Thursday 14 January, the ECHR issued a decree stating that, “it is in a child’s best interests to know the truth about his/her biological origin and the law recognises his/her true parentage, even if this goes against the child’s wishes”. The ECHR had been...
by Collectif | 17 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In Canada, the Supreme Court held that two articles in the criminal code banning medically assisted dying were unconstitutional (see Canadian Government rethinks legislation to authorise assisted suicide). The Canadian Government had one year to rewrite the law....
by Collectif | 17 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Babybloom Homoparentalité is organising a “grant for surrogate mothers” on 29 and 30 January in Brussels and on 31 January in Paris in an attempt to “help provide information for couples wishing to create a family”. The information is being circulated...
by Collectif | 14 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Conscientious objection
On Thursday, a San Francisco judge refused to force a catholic hospital to authorise the sterilisation of a patient following the birth of her third child. Judge Ernest Goldsmith essentially recognised the right of the Catholic hospital, theMerci Medical Center...