by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 29 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Serial sperm donors pose a real “social risk” for the children they father. In Brisbane, Australia, a couple of women reignited the debate after accidentally discovering that the father of their children was also the father of 43 others in the region. The two women...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 29 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In Quebec, five years after the adoption of the law introducing medically assisted suicide in 2014, the time has come for initial assessments: a Report on the situation of end-of-life care in Quebec was presented to the National Assembly last week. This report lists...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 29 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The birth announcement of a surrogate baby girl, whose surrogate mother is her grandmother and her aunt the oocyte donor, has provoked many reactions. This birth was to satisfy the desire of two homosexuals, one of whom is the biological father. Apart from the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 29 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In California, physician-assisted suicide has been allowed for three years, but many hospitals and doctors refuse to offer it to their patients. “We had heard anecdotally and from reports that patients were having trouble getting these drugs,” says Cindy...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 29 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
The first baby born after a robotic uterine transplant was born in Sweden on Monday 8 April (see Robot-assisted uterine transplants: first pregnancy in Sweden). The baby boy was born at 36 weeks via a scheduled caesarean section; he measured 48 cm and weighed 2.9 kg....
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 29 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Thursday, the Constitutional Court of South Korea in Seoul ordered the abortion ban, which it deems unconstitutional, to be lifted and called for new legislation to be adopted “by the end of next year”. The court has decided that the legislation banning...