by Collectif | 10 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Russian senator, Anton Belyakov, has proposed a ban on surrogacy in Russia. According to him, current legislation barely protects surrogate mothers and the process could even prove detrimental to any children born through surrogacy. He regrets the fact that Russia has...
by Collectif | 10 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The European Union is carrying out an “enormous task every day in Brussels and its impact is extremely important for our own legislation”. This work focuses essentially on “all anthropological and social issues” even though these are...
by Collectif | 10 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Laetitia was only 18 years of age when she discovered quite by chance that she was pregnant. The gynaecologist who performed an emergency ultrasound simply said: “Can you see something flashing on the screen? It’s your baby’s heart beat. Now, either...
by Collectif | 10 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Following his visit to Ireland at the end of 2016, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, published a report on 9 March in which he “immediately requested the Irish authorities to adopt legislation to lift all of the...
by Collectif | 10 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
A team at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Northwestern University (Chicago) has developed “a 3D culture device of living cells harvested from several organs in the female reproductive system”. This technologyknown as EVATAR “resembles...
by Collectif | 10 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
On 28 March, a sixty year-old Japanese man with age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) received an injection of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), obtained from the skin cells of an anonymous donor. This was the first procedure of its kind as, up until this point,...