by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 8 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
Thanks to medical advances, premature newborns are becoming viable earlier and earlier, with “tiny babies surviving at 24, 23 and even 22 weeks”. In the 1980s, it was generally accepted that babies were viable from 28 weeks onwards of a 40-week pregnancy....
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 8 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Researchers at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute are working on a male contraceptive pill, which has just passed the safety tests (phase I clinical trial). The data was presented at ENDO 2019, the annual meeting of the American Society of Endocrinology....
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 8 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
According to the organizers, 300,000 people were in the streets of Buenos Aires last Saturday. Other Marches for Life were also organized in 200 cities across Argentina, “with the total number of participants in the country’s various marches coming to...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
Sheila Downing, a 33-year-old American woman, was 17 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour. After quickly undergoing an operation, the doctors presented Sheila with a heart-wrenching set of options[1]: start chemotherapy immediately, putting her...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Mississippi lawmakers passed a law Tuesday banning abortion as soon as a foetal heart rate can be detected in the embryo, from around 6 weeks of pregnancy (see Two pro-life legislative initiatives in the US). The so-called “Heartbeat Bill”, makes exceptions “for...