by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Jean-Christophe Parisot, Ministerial Delegate for Employment and the Integration of Individuals with Disabilities, has published an article in French newspaper Le Monde in which he explains that decision 129 of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Although illegal, doctors are already offering patients the option to undergo artificial insemination. Sarah is gay and has an 8-year-old son, conceived through medically assisted fertilisation. She recounts how her gynaecologist “treated her like any...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Yesterday, the Pontifical Academy for Life[1] presented a document entitled “A new palliative care culture: a white paper presented as a working document”. These are the initial findings of a project entitled Pal-Life (Palliative Life), created in 2017....
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 19 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
A male patient has just undergone successful heart transplant surgery five months after receiving a Carmat artificial heart. Surgery was performed at the National Research Center of Cardiac Surgery in Astana, Kazakhstan. This is the second patient to undergo this type...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 16 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In the wake of the controversy he has unleashed, Dr Rochambeau is worried about challenges to the conscience clause of doctors who refuse to perform abortions: “Since 2013”, explains the doctor, “we have been receiving more and more requests—...