by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Nov, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A coalition of women’s human rights organisations has petitioned the UN and world leaders calling for a ban on surrogacy (womb rental). The petition also exhorts governments to withdraw funding support to UN agencies that support surrogacy. More than 250...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Nov, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
In the UK, a transgender man, who was born a woman, gave birth to a child but refuses to be registered as the mother on the birth certificate. He simply wants to be known as the child’s ” parent”. In fact, he explains that having taken the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Nov, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Currently in the UK, 90% of people whose unborn child is diagnosed with Down syndrome decide to abort. Furthermore, no-one believes that the introduction of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) could lead to a further increase in the abortion rate. NIPT, which detects...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Nov, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) voted against a draft bill seeking to “extend the circle of people using the services of a surrogate mother to single men and homosexual couples “. Surrogacy is authorised in Israel for married or single...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Nov, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Two years after undergoing lung transplant surgery, a female patient developed a very aggressive form of lung cancer. It turns out that the donor—a woman in her fifties—had been a heavy smoker, smoking a packet of cigarettes every day for thirty years. Tobacco is the...