by Collectif | 11 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Australia, excess embryos generated through a medically assisted procreation programme can be “donated” to an infertile couple without the procedure having to remain anonymous. For Natalie Parker and her husband, this “embryo donation”...
by Collectif | 11 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
This Wednesday, a controversial law on “assisted death” was adopted following a “rigorous debate” in the Australian State of. This will take effect in June 2019. This is the first Australian State to legalise assisted suicide after a very brief...
by Collectif | 11 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A Dutch fertility expert, gynaecologist Roel Schats[1], is calling for the introduction of a “surrogate mother database”. This register would list women agreeing to carry a child for infertile couples. Surrogacy is legal in the...
by Collectif | 11 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In England, a Family Court judge, Mr. MacDonald, has noted that judges have to rule on increasingly complex family situations: “Judges, practitioners and professionals are more and more concerned with cases that arise from surrogacy arrangements between...
by Collectif | 6 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In Brisbane (Queensland), Australia, two paramedics transporting a “terminally ill female patient” admitted to a palliative care unit, responded to her wish to “see the sea one last time”. When transporting her in the ambulance, they made a...