by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
According to the Beijing Youth Daily, young Chinese female students who volunteer to donate their oocytes receive “payments” for “subsistence costs” that can be more than 400,000 yuan, i.e. about €50,000. The survey published yesterday by the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
The UK High Court found that a four-year-old child “had suffered no harm” from the full sex reassignment operation decided on by his parents. Following the operation and after the parents sent their son to school in a girl’s uniform, social services...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The journal Human Reproduction has published a study entitled Cancer Risk in Infertile Women: Analysis of US Claims Data. This research shows a link between infertility and increased cancer, although it cannot specify whether infertility itself, the causes of...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
At the end of April, a clandestine abortion network was dismantled in the city of Marrakech, in Morocco. Six of its members will be tried on 24 May, including two medical interns, a medical student and a pilot who was in charge of importing medicines from Spain. The...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis
During the sexual transition period, transgender people may have to undergo hormone treatment to induce their physical changes. A Dutch study published in the BMJ shows that transgender women (born male) have a higher risk of developing breast cancer compared to the...