by Collectif | 20 Nov, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
In September 2014, the French media focused on the case of little Titouan, an extremely premature baby whose parents wished to withdraw life support. This week, the press has highlighted the first in-utero operation performed on a foetus with a congenital deformity...
by Collectif | 18 Nov, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
For the first time in France, a foetus presenting with a congenital deformity, spina bifida, underwent surgery during the 5th month of pregnancy. The operation was performed in July 2014 and the child was born on 8 November by Caesarean section. “Both mother and...
by Collectif | 13 Nov, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
In an open letter addressed to Barack Obama, the 300 or so co-signatories comprising doctors, religious leaders and ethicists entreated the President to rethink the current organ donation system in the United States. Lamenting the fact that too few people undergo...
by Collectif | 13 Nov, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
An agreement has been reached between Pfizer, the American laboratory, the Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation to distribute a new contraceptive in 69 poor countries. The large scale availability of this contraceptive will be based on a...
by Collectif | 12 Nov, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Ireland, the Supreme Court ruled by six votes to one that the mother who gives birth is the child’s legal mother except in adoption cases. In fact, one couple asked the woman’s sister to carry their “intended” twins. The children were conceived with the...
by Collectif | 12 Nov, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
After having been turned down for adoption by the relevant national authorities, a couple in their fifties turned to surrogacy in the Ukraine in 2011 for the sum of €25,000. The fraud was detected when the intended parents tried to register the birth, on...