by Collectif | 22 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Friday, Oklahoma Governor, Mary Fallin, opposed the draft bill vetoed by the Senate the day before, aimed at banning abortion except in cases where the mother’s life is in jeopardy (see No abortion ban in Oklahoma). In a press release, she announced that the draft...
by Collectif | 22 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
In the United States, a group of scientists is continuing research into hybrid human-animal embryos, despite the NIH[1] moratorium passed last September (see Create human organs in pigs or sheep – fact or fiction?). Pablo Ross, reproduction biologist at the University...
by Collectif | 22 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
A victim of sexual violence herself and suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSS), a young woman has denounced media coverage of the euthanasia of a young Dutch woman who was raped during childhood. Whilst the Daily Mail declares that, in publishing...
by Collectif | 19 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In a study published in the Cell Stem Cell journal, scientists at the New York Stem Cell Foundation contest the safety of “three-parent IVF” – a gene therapy technique authorised in Great Britain in 2015. This technique involves creating embryos from...
by Collectif | 19 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Whilst the New Delhi Government is working on a draft bill to extend passive euthanasia, the extensive, unanimous Catholic Indian opposition is expressing its views on a designated Web site created by the Ministry for Health and Social Assistance on 9 May. ...
by Collectif | 19 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A 49 year-old man in the State of Victoria, Australia, has just been sentenced for sexually abusing his two daughters born to a foreign surrogate mother. He had taken the twins to Australia. The man has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for 37 counts of...