by Collectif | 14 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
The accusations made against David Deleiden and Sandra Merritt from the Center for Medical Progress have been partly dropped. Both anti-abortion journalists were accused of falsifying their identity to produce secretly filmed videos intimating that they wished to...
by Collectif | 13 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Scotland’s Public Health Minister, Aileen Campbell, has announced changes to the admissibility criteria for Scottish couples who could soon benefit from extended access to in-vitro fertilisation services. The government confirmed that it has accepted the key...
by Collectif | 13 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
The INSERM Regenerative Nanomedicine Unit in Strasbourg led by Dr. Nadia Benkirane-Jessel has devised a new generation of 3D implants to treat osteoarthritis, long since “considered an ageing-related fatality” with pain relief being feasible in only some cases. ...
by Collectif | 12 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Monette Vacquin, psychoanalyst and member of the Respect for Persons Collective (CoRP), has responded to the latest MPA and surrogacy findings to coincide with the publication of her book, Frankenstein aujourd’hui:égarements et délires de la science moderne. As...
by Collectif | 12 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
On Tuesday, 7 June 2016, the Centre-Right Portuguese President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa vetoed the law authorising surrogacy. He believes that the law does not “comply with the conditions put forward by the National Advisory Body for Ethics and Life Sciences”, “which...
by Collectif | 12 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
20,000 sick or disabled people gathered in Rome between Friday and Sunday on the occasion of the Jubilee of the Sick and the Disabled. During the solemn mass on 12 June, Pope Francis denounced the “exclusion of handicapped people” and the “illusion” under which some...