by Collectif | 23 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Friday, President Trump’s administration overturned in the name of “religious and moral beliefs”, “a provision of the ‘Obamacare’ law which obliged employers to include contraception in health insurance cover for their employees”....
by Collectif | 23 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On 6 October 2017, a “second interim report on medically assisted dying” was published by the Canadian Health Minister. Between June 2016, the date on which medically assisted dying was authorised, and 30 June 2017, “1,982 individuals have had access...
by Collectif | 23 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In Australia, the state of Victoria has authorised children “of any age” to write advance care directives. Until now, regardless of country, the law “gives the last word to parents” regarding medical decisions concerning their children. ...
by Collectif | 23 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The Irish Government has approved a bill presented by Health Minister, Simon Harris, focusing on “a full set of measures […] regarding medically assisted procreation”. For the first time in Ireland, couples will be able to benefit from...
by Collectif | 23 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Canada, the creation of embryos from three DNAs (see One baby, 3 DNAs, 3 transgressions) is banned. Canada’s law on assisted procreation states that no-one can consciously “modify the genome in a cell of a human being or embryo in vitro such that the...