by Collectif | 17 Nov, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In Sweden on 12 November 2015, the Jönköping court rejected the request submitted by a midwife requesting equal employment opportunities. In fact, she was refused several hospital posts because she is a conscientious objector, refusing to carry out abortions. ...
by Collectif | 17 Nov, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On 6 February 2015, the Canadian Supreme Court declared that “the refusal to offer medically assisted dying to a consenting person was unconstitutional”. It “suspended the invalidity of certain laws [Penal Code] banning assisted suicide and gave Ottawa one year to...
by Collectif | 16 Nov, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
For the first time, doctors at Boston Pediatric Hospital will sequence the genome of newborn infants in an attempt “to foresee the diseases that the child might develop in the future” and thus to “prevent” them. Currently, newborn babies are already...
by Collectif | 16 Nov, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
A team at the NYU Langone Medical Research Center in New York has performed a “total face transplant involving the scalp, ears and ear canals on a former voluntary fireman”, namely 41 year-old Patrick Hardison. This is “the most complete procedure to date” following a...
by Collectif | 15 Nov, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
The United States Supreme Court has announced that it will examine “the legality of restrictions imposed by certain American states regarding women’s rights to abortion”. It must deliberate on a law governing abortion which has already been partly adopted in Texas....