by Collectif | 30 Aug, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Conscientious objection
The Uruguay Court of Administrative Litigation “ruled in favour of a group of 100 gynaecologists against the Government”on 21 August 2015 regarding their conscience clause when confronted with abortion. The judges thus overruled seven abortion-related...
by Collectif | 30 Aug, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
A questionnaire is now online inviting Canadian citizens to express their point of view freely on the topic of medically assisted dying. This initiative follows on from the creation by the Federal Government of an external committee responsible for collecting all...
by Collectif | 27 Aug, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Further to the announcement at the end of July by Doctor Daniela Simon, a Guardianship Judge at the Court of Reims this week received a request to make Vincent Lambert a ward of court. The Public Prosecutor in Reims confirmed: “Doctor Simon has told me she...
by Collectif | 27 Aug, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Italy is launching an “Egg Sharing” campaign “to convince Italian women to donate a few oocytes for infertile couples”. The women targeted in particular by this campaign are “those on the homologous fertilisationlist [1]”. These women who have “already been...
by Collectif | 27 Aug, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Given the extent of procreative tourism which is driving more and more Australian couples abroad to “choose the gender of their child conceived by in-vitro fertilisation”, the Ethics Committee is contemplating authorising this option in Australia. It is already...
by Collectif | 26 Aug, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
The Chinese Government wishes to regulate private clinics proposing stem cell treatments[1], the efficacy of which has not been proven. To this end, on 21 August 2015, it announced research legislation governing stem cell research. Some scientists are delighted at the...