by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis
Having been paralysed in the legs from the age of four, a young man in the United States has just taken a few steps thanks to electrical stimulation. Following a snowmobile accident affecting his spinal cord, he lost the use of his legs and could no longer feel them....
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
During the summer, the US prolife network revealed an FDA contract[1] in the United States to purchase tissue from aborted human foetuses to create “chimeric mice”, i.e. with a human immune system, for research purposes. In response, the Ministry of Health...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis
On the occasion of the publication of Decision 129 by the French National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE), Professor Emmanuel Sapin, Head of the Department of Paediatric Surgery at Dijon Children’s Hospital, laments the fact that “changes in...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Delhi, a child-trafficking gang linked to a surrogacy centre stole sperm and egg samples from an IFV centre. This centre then sold the samples on to childless couples either for pregnancy when the woman is able to conceive or via a surrogate mother. In this second...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A researcher at Linköping University in Sweden[1] has studied the ethical aspects of uterine transplantation, and concludes that this procedure is not necessarily less complex than surrogacy from an ethical perspective. A certain number of teams around the...