by Collectif | 13 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The Hague Conference – the intergovernmental organisation responsible for cooperation in terms of family law, is currently working on legislation intended to “focus on transnational surrogacy and facilitate the mutual recognition of direct lines of descent arising...
by Collectif | 13 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On Friday, 11 September 2015, by 330 votes to 118, British MPs rejecteda draft law authorising patients with a life expectancy of no more than six months to take their own life. This draft legislation authorising assisted suicide triggered opposition from...
by Collectif | 9 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Members of the Hinxton group – an international network of scientists, bioethicists, lawyers and political experts met last week in Great Britain and declared themselves “in favour of genetically modifying human embryos”. According to this expert group,...
by Collectif | 9 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
British experts from the British Fertility Society (BFS) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) – the two main organisations representing fertility professionals in Great Britain – are taking stock of oocyte freezing. The approach appeals to...
by Collectif | 9 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Following in the footsteps of Oregon, the State of Washington, Montana and Vermont, it is now California’s turn to legalise assisted suicide. On Wednesday, the Californian Assembly voted in (by 43 votes to 34) a draft bill authorising doctors “to provide...