by Collectif | 22 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
On 14 January, the Quebec Court of Appeal made a “major” judgment authorising “a homosexual couple to adopt the child born to a surrogate mother”. In 2014, the two men asked a female friend to carry the child conceived by IVF. At the request of the surrogate mother,...
by Collectif | 21 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Professor Nick Macklon, Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton (Great Britain), has developed a new in-vitro fertilisation technique, AneVivo. Using this technique, “fertilisation occurs in the natural environment of the uterus...
by Collectif | 19 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Conscientious objection
In the United States, several institutions and Christian educational institutions“have submitted a request to the Supreme Court within the scope of the hearing organised by the latter in March on the Obamacare ‘Contraceptive Mandate[1]”. This focuses on the case...
by Collectif | 19 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
For Swisstransplant, the Swiss national foundation in charge of organ donation and transplantation, 2015 was “the best year for organ donations in Switzerland”: 143 people who died donated their organs in 2015 (i.e. 17.4 donors per million inhabitants), compared to...
by Collectif | 18 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Several hospitals around the world (United States, Brazil, Sweden and the United Kingdom) have been taking part in an international study since 2006 in order to “evaluate the long-term effects of stem cell transplantation”. In this respect, the Royal Hallamshire...
by Collectif | 17 Jan, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Babybloom Homoparentalité is organising a “grant for surrogate mothers” on 29 and 30 January in Brussels and on 31 January in Paris in an attempt to “help provide information for couples wishing to create a family”. The information is being circulated...