by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 7 Jan, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A woman, married to another woman, was sentenced on 5 December by the Caen court to a four month suspended prison term with a two-year probation period. In addition, she will have to pay 500 euros to the sperm donor who enabled her to give birth to their daughter. At...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 7 Jan, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)[1] announced that it will allocate $20 million over two years to research alternatives to human foetal tissue. The use of these human foetuses for research is not illegal in the USA, but it is highly controversial since...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 7 Jan, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
In late November, He Jiankui announced that twins had been born with a gene that he had edited to make them resistant to infection with HIV (see China: birth of two genetically edited babies). The changes were made to the CCR5 gene, which has been the subject of...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 7 Jan, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
The Ohio Senate voted 18 votes in favour and 13 votes against the bill that would ban abortion as soon as a heartbeat is detected. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives last month (see Ohio: draft bill to ban abortion of foetuses with detectable...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 7 Jan, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Seven months after the referendum that began the procedure for decriminalizing abortion in Ireland, Parliament passed the bill on Thursday (see In Ireland, marketing authorisation for the abortion pill and Irish Referendum: abortion decriminalised). The bill...