by Collectif | 10 Mar, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A few days away from the vote on the draft bill relating to the surrogacy report and resolution by the Commission, social questions are raised by the Council of Europe and the No Maternity Traffic Collective, the FAFCE[1] and ECLJ[2] take a stance to oppose it. ...
by Collectif | 10 Mar, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In late October 2015, a British study conducted by Professor Alastair Sutcliffe and a team of scientists at University College Hospital London, confirmed the role of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the increased risk of ovarian cancer in sterile women. A...
by Collectif | 10 Mar, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
Bioethics debates are often divided between utilitarian or “ethical” perspectives and a Kantian approach to ethics. There is, however, an alternative approach which attracts less attention, namely natural law. Professor John Keown from Georgetown University, has...
by Collectif | 8 Mar, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
The first uterus transplant carried out at the end of February in the United States, has failed. The complications which arose following transplantation “compelled the medical team to remove the organ”. The Cleveland Clinic made the following statement: “We...
by Collectif | 8 Mar, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Four years after the launch of the European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI) One of Us, with its two million signatures, which were overlooked by the European Commission in May 2014, “approximately thirty movements in sixteen countries are joining forces to become a major...
by Collectif | 7 Mar, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Many European States ban surrogacy and non-European countries that authorise it are tending to limit or even prohibit it. The European Parliament condemned this practice in its report on human rights and democracy in December 2015. “However, with total discretion, two...