by Collectif | 13 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On Friday, 11 September 2015, by 330 votes to 118, British MPs rejecteda draft law authorising patients with a life expectancy of no more than six months to take their own life. This draft legislation authorising assisted suicide triggered opposition from...
by Collectif | 13 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The Hague Conference – the intergovernmental organisation responsible for cooperation in terms of family law, is currently working on legislation intended to “focus on transnational surrogacy and facilitate the mutual recognition of direct lines of descent arising...
by Collectif | 13 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Carine Brochier from the European Bioethics Institute (EBI) takes stock of current embryo status in Europe. She refers to the recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR): Parillo versus Italy, according to which an embryo cannot be...
by Collectif | 9 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Wednesday, 9 September 2015, the Spanish Senate approved the final version of the reform of the abortion law, initiated by Mariano Rajoy in 2013(cf. Synthèse de presse Gènéthique des 3 septembre 2013, 24 mars 2015 et du 15 avril 2015). The reform was...
by Collectif | 9 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Following in the footsteps of Oregon, the State of Washington, Montana and Vermont, it is now California’s turn to legalise assisted suicide. On Wednesday, the Californian Assembly voted in (by 43 votes to 34) a draft bill authorising doctors “to provide...
by Collectif | 9 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
British experts from the British Fertility Society (BFS) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) – the two main organisations representing fertility professionals in Great Britain – are taking stock of oocyte freezing. The approach appeals to...