by Collectif | 8 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In 2014 and 2015 in Belgium, “62.8% of euthanasia cases involved individuals over 70 years of age”. The proportion of deaths by euthanasia has increased in retirement homes from 5% in 2002 to 12% in 2015. Christian Mutuality (CM)[1] warns against a...
by Collectif | 8 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Heily Delage, now five months old, “is a real-life miracle,” according to her parents. Eight months into the pregnancy, she was diagnosed with a “serious brain condition”. Following a medically recommended abortion, the baby was born...
by Collectif | 8 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
According to a study published by the organisation American Life League, 32 Planned Parenthood centres[1] closed their doors in 2017. Two clinics closed in Colorado, four in California, and three each in Arizona, Iowa, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The same...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 5 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Twenty-five years ago, after undergoing in-vitro fertilisation, an anonymous couple donated frozen embryos to “give a chance to those unable to conceive a child naturally”. For their part, Tina and Benjamin Gibson knew when they got married...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 5 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Thirty years ago, Doctor Donald Cline, a retired fertility doctor from Indianapolis (USA), used his own sperm “approximately 50 times” to inseminate patients. He has just been given a one-year suspended prison sentence by the Marion Superior Court (USA)....
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 5 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
German scientists at the Leibniz Institute are experimenting with the use of sperm to treat female reproductive tract cancers. In vitro, they placed bovine sperm loaded with an anticancer agent in contact with uterine tumours. The sperm swam towards the tumours and...