by Collectif | 28 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
The Ottawa Provincial-Territorial Expert Advisory Group on Physician-Assisted Dying was heard by MPs on Tuesday evening. This group published its report in December.Their “worrying” perspective is that “medically assisted dying should not only be offered to...
by Collectif | 27 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
“For half a century,” the Zika virus “was believed to be harmless”. However, in recent weeks this has become a public health problem because the virus is “believed to trigger incurable congenital deformities when it infects pregnant women (microcephaly with...
by Collectif | 27 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The Council of Europe Social Affairs Committee voted yesterday following the debate fuelled by Members of the European Parliament who challenged the role of rapporteur granted to Belgian MP, De Sutter, a transsexual gynaecologist practising surrogacy, further to the...
by Collectif | 26 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In 2002, Belgium adopted a legal framework to “develop ‘palliative care for all’, whilst decriminalising euthanasia under specific rigorous conditions”. Nowadays, doctors are taught that euthanasia is a “complimentary act to palliative care in the most...
by Collectif | 25 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
On Monday, Portuguese President, Anibal Cavaco Silva[1], vetoed a law authorising adoption by homosexual couples. Parliament voted on this law in December with a left majority. The Socialist Party announced “that it wished to confirm the law by an absolute...
by Collectif | 25 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt from the Center for Medical Progress, were indicted on Monday in a jury trial [1] in Texas “for reporting on the alleged sale of foetal tissues by the Family Planning Association”.The jury accused both journalists “of having...