by Collectif | 24 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
American President , Donald Trump, has just enacted “a law repealing a directive of the Obama era” aimed at “protecting” the financing of family planning clinics by public funds. In applying this new law, the States can henceforth ban...
by Collectif | 18 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
The Dutch Medical Council recommends that scientists should be authorised to create human embryos for research purposes, which would pave the way for the genetic handling of these embryos using “genome editing” techniques. On Tuesday, the Dutch...
by Collectif | 18 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Organ donation following euthanasia is in the pipeline in the Netherlands. Twenty-three cases have been recorded since the decriminalisation of euthanasia in this country in 2012. Although this practice “is still in its infancy”,there are calls for a...
by Collectif | 18 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In September 2016, Doctor Zhang announced that he had practised “three-parent IVF” in the United States for a Jordanian couple where the wife was the carrier of a mitochondrial disease (seeBirth of the first “three-parent baby”: a dangerous and...
by Collectif | 18 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Nine months after the surrogacy ban in Cambodia (see After India and Thailand, it’s Cambodia’s turn to ban surrogacy), Prime Minister, Hun Sen, has just approved a strategy to authorise a way out of the country for babies born to Cambodian surrogate...
by Collectif | 18 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
“More and more Belgian and European women” are purchasing abortion kits on the Internet, according to Family Planning Associations. These kits contain the two medicinal products prescribed for drug-induced abortion, namely mifepristone and misoprostol. This...