by Collectif | 25 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Wednesday, Ohio Parliamentarians adopted a draft bill, by 55 votes to 40, aimed at banning abortion six weeks after conception, i.e. the time at which a foetal heart beat can first be detected. Any doctor carrying out an abortion after 6 weeks will be found...
by Collectif | 24 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
A team of eighteen American scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners [1], have published a warning on the potential uses of the new tool, “CRISPR-Cas9”, in the Science journal. They echo the sentiments of five scientists who published an appeal for a...
by Collectif | 23 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Valentina Maureira, aged 14, is suffering from cystic fibrosis. At the beginning of March, she turned to Chilean President, Michelle Bachelet, for permission to undergo euthanasia, claiming that she was “tired of living with this disease”. Since...
by Collectif | 23 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The Hague Conference, an intergovernmental organisation responsible for ensuring co-operation in terms of family law, must decide today whether it accepts to work on a future text “for shaping international law in relation to transnational surrogacy, and...
by Collectif | 23 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On 23 September 2014, Mariano Rajoy’s government abandoned a draft law seeking only to authorise abortion in cases of danger to health, life-threatening situations to the woman or following rape. There was strong international opposition to this draft...
by Collectif | 22 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
Clinical trials using “gene editing” or “genetic engineering” techniques are increasing. These techniques use nucleases to modify the genome. Recently, in early March 2015, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised a phase I...