by Collectif | 17 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Monday, 16 March, as part of the national abortion debate, launched by Houssain Louardi, Health Minister, the Rabat National Library held a debate on abortion organised by the Association Marocaine de Lutte contre l’Avortement Clandestin (AMLAC) (Moroccan...
by Collectif | 17 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Monday, 16 March, the Iowa Chamber adopted a draft law obliging doctors to routinely offer women wishing to have an abortion the chance to see an ultrasound scan of their child and to hear the baby’s heartbeat. “This gives a woman the opportunity to be fully...
by Collectif | 16 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
Scientific advances are such that the most disturbing science-fiction scenarios are nowadays taken into account. Last week on the Reddit site, Bill Gates announced that he was “concerned by the rapid progress of artificial intelligence”. Although artificial...
by Collectif | 15 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The European group of associations, “No Maternity Traffic”, promoting the abolition of surrogacy, and the ECLJ (European Centre for Law and Justice) have lodged an “individual complaint”against the United Nations Special Reporter [1]. They denounce “the participation...
by Collectif | 12 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Wednesday, 11 March, the European Parliament adopted the Panzeri report, the 2013 annual report on ” Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter”. This report includes a paragraph that seeks to...
by Collectif | 12 Mar, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
A national meeting on abortion was held in Morocco on 11 March. On this occasion, Moroccan Health Minister, El Houssine Louardi, commented on the current abortion law, referring to it as “restrictive, unfair, obsolete” and “not taking into...