by Collectif | 19 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Sweden, feminists are calling for the condemnation of surrogacy due to related health risks and the fact that it violates the fundamental rights of poor women. For them, authorising surrogacy is tantamount to “using women’s bodies and their...
by Collectif | 16 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
This week, the television channel, NBC News, disclosed that Facebook and Apple were financing the freezing of employees’ oocytes in order to delay pregnancies (Gènéthique press review on October 15th, 2014). Across the Atlantic, this technique is claimed to have...
by Collectif | 14 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Two multinational companies, Facebook and Apple, are financing the freezing of their employees’ ovules in order to delay their pregnancies. This new method of management, which is a contentious issue, has been uncovered by the American channel, NBC News. ...
by Collectif | 14 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Latest news on the draft bill restricting abortion in the State of Texas. With this new legislation, clinics carrying out abortions “should basically be subject to the same construction standards as hospitals in terms of surgical practices from this point...
by Collectif | 13 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
In France, at the request of Semaines sociales de France, France Télévision and La Croix, Crédoc (Research Centre for Studying and Observing living conditions) carried out a survey on transhumanism in order to establish how the French people felt about...
by Collectif | 12 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
The Federal American Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have recently been involved in a battle against unwanted pregnancies in minors. They have currently joined forces with the American Pediatric Society. According to the Pediatrics journal,...