by Collectif | 24 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
A team of eighteen American scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners [1], have published a warning on the potential uses of the new tool, “CRISPR-Cas9”, in the Science journal. They echo the sentiments of five scientists who published an appeal for a...
by Collectif | 23 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On 23 September 2014, Mariano Rajoy’s government abandoned a draft law seeking only to authorise abortion in cases of danger to health, life-threatening situations to the woman or following rape. There was strong international opposition to this draft...
by Collectif | 23 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The Hague Conference, an intergovernmental organisation responsible for ensuring co-operation in terms of family law, must decide today whether it accepts to work on a future text “for shaping international law in relation to transnational surrogacy, and...
by Collectif | 23 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Valentina Maureira, aged 14, is suffering from cystic fibrosis. At the beginning of March, she turned to Chilean President, Michelle Bachelet, for permission to undergo euthanasia, claiming that she was “tired of living with this disease”. Since...
by Collectif | 22 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On Friday, Professor Wim Distelmans, President of the Federal Euthanasia Control and Evaluation Commission, indicated that approximately fifty people were euthanized in Belgium on psychiatric grounds in 2013 and again in 2014. “At the onset of the...