by Collectif | 27 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Conscientious objection
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) met with 25 other major religious pro-life and health care organisations on 19 April to ask the United States Chamber of Representatives to adopt the Conscience Protection Act (H.R. 4828). The signatories...
by Collectif | 27 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
CRISPR or the “irrepressible temptation to reinvent the human genome”. Should we “prepare ourselves for the birth of a ‘CRISPRbaby’ in the future?” “How should we organise democratic dialogue on this kind of subject”? An international meeting was organised at...
by Collectif | 27 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
As announced last week (seeReturn of Surrogacy to the Council of Europe), the Council of Europe will review Petra de Sutter’s surrogacy report on 2 June. According to Marie-Anne Frison Roche, “the guidelines of this report have not been modified”, and the aim is still...
by Collectif | 26 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
The 2015 Annual Report drafted by the Regional Euthanasia Monitoring Committees in the Netherlands highlighted a 50% increase in the number of cases of euthanasia and assisted suicide since 2011. Out of the 147,010 deaths recorded in 2015, 5,516 involved euthanasia or...
by Collectif | 26 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | GMO
Summoned for the first time to comment on a plant that had been genetically modified by CRISPR, the US Department of Agriculture deemed that its administration “did not have the power to regulate the cultivation of a Paris mushroom genetically modified using CRISPR”....
by Collectif | 26 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
On Tuesday, Gordon Lake and Manuel Valero, a Spanish-American homosexual couple were granted guardianship of Carmen, born fifteen months ago in Thailand through surrogacy. The biological mother contested the child leaving the country and refused to sign papers to...