by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 15 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In the U.S., the Trump Administration has awarded a grant of $5.1 million for the next three years, including $1.7 million for this year, to the non-profit organization the Obria Group. The funds come from Title X of the family planning fund, which excludes abortion...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 15 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In 2017, a team of researchers announced that they had kept premature lamb foetuses alive in an “artificial uterus”. Last month, the same scientists said that they had made a “leap forward” by carrying out the same experiment with...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 15 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
According to surveys, New York State residents are massively overwhelmingly opposed to late-term abortions. Barely two months after the Governor of New York legalized abortion until birth[1], a survey by Marist Poll showed that only 20% of New Yorkers are in favour of...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 15 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have carried out a large-scale study to investigate the risk of cancer in children born from IVF[1]. This study, published in JAMA Paediatrics, included 2,542,533 children born between 2004 and 2013 in 14 American states,...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 15 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
An American woman in Nebraska gave birth to her granddaughter on 25 March at the age of 61. “If you want me to be the gestational carrier, I’d do it in a heartbeat,” Cecile Eledge had said to her son Matthew. Little Uma Louise was born to...