by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 10 Dec, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Abortion will no longer be banned after 15 weeks in Mississippi. The law was revoked on Tuesday by a federal judge. He held that such a law “unequivocally” violated the constitutional rights of women. This law was adopted in March 2018 (see...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 10 Dec, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Nineteen US states are calling for the US Supreme Court to uphold the abortion ban for Down syndrome in Indiana. This 2016 law has been challenged over the past month by Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill who wants to lift the ban. It prohibits “the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 10 Dec, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Experts appointed by the courts have drawn their conclusions. They initially deemed that the 42-year-old male nurse was in an “irreversible chronic vegetative state”: “From a clinical perspective, Vincent Lambert is totally incapacitated in terms of...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 10 Dec, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
The European Medicines Agency is calling for a change in the package leaflet of hormonal contraceptive pills to “warn of the risks of depression and suicide”. The decision is based on a 2017 Danish study. Of the 500,000 women enrolled in the study, 69,999...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 10 Dec, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Léah is a young disabled woman aged nineteen. She suffered from alternating hemiplegia of childhood, which slowed down her motor and mental development and triggered bouts of epilepsy. The last episode occurred on 19 August 2018, culminating in a two-month stay in the...