by Collectif | 1 Dec, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The new Polish Government (elected on 25 October 2015) has “decided to terminate State funding of the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) programme with effect from mid-2016”. Health Minister Mikolaj Radziwill announced on Tuesday that, “The in-vitro programme will be...
by Collectif | 29 Nov, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Men bring children into the world? This may be feasible. According to Dr. Karine Chung, Director of the Fertility Preservation Programme at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, it will be possible “to transplant uteruses in men to allow them...
by Collectif | 25 Nov, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In Peru, the Parliamentary Laws’ Commission has rejected the draft law “to decriminalise abortion in the case of rape, thus ruling out the opportunity for a Parliamentary debate prior to closure of the Parliamentary session in July 2016”. The debate was held in...
by Collectif | 25 Nov, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
When New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, recently considered lifting the surrogacy ban in place in his State since 1993, a new surrogacy case came to light. It focused on the conflict between a man and the Californian surrogate mother with whom he signed an...
by Collectif | 24 Nov, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Further to last June’s announcement, the Carmat Biotechnology Company was granted authorisation on Tuesday, 24 November 2015 by the French medical authorities [1]to perform a fourth artificial heart implant. The aim is to complete the initial trial phase [2]: “By...