by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 22 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Jérôme, 46, is divorced and father to seven-year-old Arsène. He has “tried to be both mother and father to his son” but “at times he feels that his child is ‘missing a mother'” and he doesn’t know how to resolve the problem”....
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 22 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Egg donors are paid too much in the Netherlands with up to €900 compensation per “donation”. Ethicists at University Medical Centre Utrecht are afraid that women are being forced “to donate their eggs for financial reasons”. However, in their...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 22 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In Belgium, following months of debate both in Parliament and civil society, a decision was taken yesterday to revise the 1990 Lallemand-Michielsens abortion law by 84 votes to 39 with five abstentions. The bill removes abortion from the penal code but penal...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Spain, when parents who have had access to medically assisted reproduction do not use their embryos, the law authorises reproduction centres to use them for research purposes, destroy them or to donate them to other couples. In Barcelona, Institut Marquès, which...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Last week, the Irish President enacted the law on the legalisation of abortion in Ireland following the referendum (see: Ireland: legalisation of abortion enacted). Abortion units should become operational in January 2019. Meanwhile, Minister Simon Harris intends to...