by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A woman from Massachusetts, USA, has sued the fertility clinic that froze her embryo for 13 years without her knowledge. Marisa Cloutier-Bristol and her first husband apparently dreamt of having ten children, but despite several cycles of IVF treatment [1] at Women...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
On 15 March, Indian police intercepted a man at Bombay airport. He was carrying a nitrogen-packed canister that turned out to contain human embryos. The arrested man, Partiban Durai, admitted to working for a Malaysian surrogacy agency Heart to Art, which “acts...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
The WHO expert advisory committee on genome editing recently met in Geneva for two days (see Genetically Modified Babies: WHO launches ethics committee). It has called for an international registry of scientists working on genome editing to be established for...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 25 Mar, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis
“We knew this was going to happen and that he was very sick, but the news can’t be given that way, somebody should have told us in person and not through a machine,” says the astonished granddaughter of a Californian patient who died at 79. Annalisia...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 25 Mar, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In the United States, recent laws restricting access to abortion have given rise to a large number of websites selling abortion pills of questionable origin online. On Tuesday, the FDA sent warning letters to the two main players: the website AidAccess.org and the...