by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 13 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Last Friday, the highest court in Kansas deduced a “right to abortion” from the State Constitution According to the court, the “equal and inalienable rights” proclaimed in the Bill of Rights of the Kansas Constitution imply a “natural right of personal autonomy”....
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 13 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Alabama’s House of Representatives voted 74 to 3 on Tuesday to pass a bill that would make abortion a Class A felony, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 99 years. Attempted abortion would become a Class C felony, which holds a sentence of up to 10 years...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 13 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Conscientious objection
“Just today we finalized new protections of conscience rights for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students and faith-based charities”,Trump told an interfaith audience in the White House Rose Garden. The objective is to protect all health professionals...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 13 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A federal criminal complaint has been filed against 37-year-old Grégory Blosser, from Florida, in connection with his business activities as head of company TSG, The Surrogacy Group, which he had operated since 2012. He is accused of setting up a scheme to defraud...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 13 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
The researcher Hiromitsu Nakauchi has announced that an experiment is starting in Japan to culture a human pancreas in pigs. This statement comes as Japan has just relaxed its legislation on chimeras [1]. Nevertheless, Nakauchi still needs to obtain approval from the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 13 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis
The latest innovation by researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital is an autonomous robot navigating through pig hearts. This autonomous catheter can move by itself in a beating heart: it is equipped with optical ‘whiskers’, enabling it to move like certain...