by Collectif | 7 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In a press release, the Chamber receiving the appeal of Lambert et al v. France announced that it was switching the case to the Grand Chamber of the ECHR in an attempt to avoid any appeal within three months against the judgement passed in the first chamber....
by Collectif | 7 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
In a “carte blanche” approach given to Nicolas Gompel and Benjamin Prud’homme by the French daily newspaper, Le Monde, the two geneticists question the value to be given to correlations made between sequenced data. They stated that it is nowadays possible to...
by Collectif | 5 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In September 2014, a Swedish woman who was born without a uterus gave birth to a child after having undergone a uterus transplant one year earlier. Carried out by the team led by Professor Mats Brannstrom, specialising in obstetric gynaecology at the University of...
by Collectif | 5 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In November 2013, the American Supreme Court refused to suspend the application of a law restricting access to abortion (Gènéthique press review on November 22nd, 2013), thereby confirming the decision taken by the Texas Appeal Court (Gènéthique press review...
by Collectif | 5 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
In Wallonia, family planning centres are authorised to issue contraceptive pills and morning-after pill in addition to pharmacists. However, a royal decree of 1967 states that only pharmacists are authorised to dispense this type of pill. Thus the Walloon...
by Collectif | 2 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Ohio, a lesbian couple have decided to lodge a complaint against a sperm bank after having a black baby following insemination. At 4 months pregnant, Jennifer Cramblett was informed by the Midwest Sperm Bank (Ohio) with which she was dealing that a...