by Collectif | 2 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In its 2015 report on human rights, the American State Department published abortion figures in China. Whereas official Chinese statistics report 13 million abortions each year, the report compiled by the American State Department refers to 23 million in 2015, i.e....
by Collectif | 2 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
The TA-SWISS Centre for Technology Assessment has just published a report on Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening (NIPS) in an attempt to “avoid spin-offs” of these tests. This report will be presented to MPs whilst the Federal law on human genetic analysis, focusing...
by Collectif | 2 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On Thursday, 14 April, the Canadian Government led by Justin Trudeau proposed draft bill C-14 on “active assistance to die” for patients who are not necessarily at the end of their life but for whom “natural death” is “reasonably foreseeable”. This is an extremely...
by Collectif | 2 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A “rather unusual” case has just emerged “on either side of the Atlantic”: three Canadian families are suing an American company for “deception” in its marketing of human sperm samples. Donor No. 9623 “was presented in the catalogue as a man of particular...
by Collectif | 1 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Geneva University Hospitals announced “a world first incarrying out a liver transplant between two HIV positive subjects in October 2015”. Two uncertainties remained at the time of the transplant: would a new and difficult to treat HIV strain be transmitted? Would the...
by Collectif | 1 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In Northern Ireland, the sentencing of two young women who had abortions (see Northern Ireland: suspended prison sentence for woman who took abortion pills) “will encourage new MPs to try and change the law,” announced Susan McKay, Northern-Ireland...