by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 6 Mar, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A “baby factory” was discovered in a Bangkok apartment in the summer of 2014. Common paternity was quickly established through DNA tests (see “Baby factory” in Thailand – doctor ready to give himself up to the police”). Wealthy...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 6 Mar, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Ireland is to hold a referendum this year to finalise abortion legislation. The Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution, which bestows equivalent rights on mother and child, could be repealed to authorise abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy. The process is in...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 6 Mar, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis
Using artificial intelligence, scientists at Google’s Health Tech subsidiary, Verily, can predict the risk of heart attack or stroke by looking at images of a patient’s retina. They claim that they can predict with 70% reliability which individuals could...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Mar, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Last week, the ECHR ruled as inadmissible the case of Charron and Merle-Montet v. France, in which “two women demanded a ‘right to a child without a father’” (see “MAP for all”: case deemed inadmissible by the ECHR). This judgement...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Mar, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
President Ogirima of the African branch of the WMA [1], has announced that “Africa rejects medically assisted suicide and euthanasia,” describing them as “contrary to the medical oath”, which states that “I [doctors]will not use my...