by Collectif | 31 Mar, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The “Les Echos” newspaper conducted a survey on the US surrogacy business. This market was created about thirty years ago and now boasts an annual turnover of approximately “$4 billion” according to the Harris Williams&Co practice. Tens of agencies...
by Collectif | 31 Mar, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Professor of Obstetrics, Wendy Savage, has declared that women should be informed of the sex of the foetus when they have an ultrasound scan. She believes that retaining information “for fear of gender-selection abortions” is “scandalous”. 81...
by Collectif | 31 Mar, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Two scientists from Quebec, Marie-Josée Hébert and Mélanie Dieudé, “have just discovered why the human body sometimes rejects transplanted organs”. After a long period of research dating back to the 1990s, they have proven that “signals sent by the...
by Collectif | 28 Mar, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Reform of the Angolan criminal code, voted on during the initial reading last month, included a draft bill aimed at suppressing abortion (see Angola reforms its abortion law). On Thursday, the chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the party currently in power, which...
by Collectif | 28 Mar, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
In the United States, three women aged 72, 78 and 88 have lost their sight following stem cell injections in their eyes, in 2015, to treat ARMD. This resulted in “a gradual and irreversible loss of vision”. The injections “were administered as part...