by Collectif | 13 Nov, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
In an open letter addressed to Barack Obama, the 300 or so co-signatories comprising doctors, religious leaders and ethicists entreated the President to rethink the current organ donation system in the United States. Lamenting the fact that too few people undergo...
by Collectif | 12 Nov, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
After having been turned down for adoption by the relevant national authorities, a couple in their fifties turned to surrogacy in the Ukraine in 2011 for the sum of €25,000. The fraud was detected when the intended parents tried to register the birth, on...
by Collectif | 12 Nov, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Ireland, the Supreme Court ruled by six votes to one that the mother who gives birth is the child’s legal mother except in adoption cases. In fact, one couple asked the woman’s sister to carry their “intended” twins. The children were conceived with the...
by Collectif | 11 Nov, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
Official British Government figures have revealed a current “shocking” practice, namely to compensate parents for having an unwanted child or a child with an abnormality. One hundred and sixty four (164) complaints have been lodged with the NHS since 2003 and have led...
by Collectif | 11 Nov, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
Jean-Yves Nau, journalist and doctor, refers to the announcement made by the CERBA Laboratory, which recently published the results of its SEHDA study. The aim of this study was to highlight the reliability of its non-invasive screening method for Down Syndrome...