by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 5 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Thursday, MPs in Argentina rejected the law aimed at legalising abortion despite the fact that the draft bill had been approved by MPs in June (see In Argentina, the Chamber of Deputies launches ambitious bill on abortion in challenging circumstances and In...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 5 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A Canadian couple get divorced. The judge shares the material assets between the man and woman. The couple have a frozen embryo in a fertility clinic which was produced from sperm and eggs purchased for $11,500 in the United States. This is the last of four embryos...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 5 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
The French company,Carmat, has just announced the first successful heart transplant in a patient previously implanted with a Carmat artificial heart, in its Pivot study. The patient received the Carmat artificial heart in October 2017 and “after 8 months...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 5 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
The United Kingdom Supreme Court has just ruled that medical personnel can remove feeding tubes from patients in a permanent vegetative or minimally conscious state, without requesting legal authorisation from the Court of Protection, provided that families and...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 5 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
Last April, the Newfoundland Court in Canada recognised three legal parents—two fathers and one mother—of a child born naturally in 2017. This is the first known co-parenting case for a child conceived naturally. Although the mother’s identity has been...