by Collectif | 21 Jun, 2012 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Thursday 21 June 2012, the Turkish government "is backtracking regarding its intentions to challenge the right to abortion which triggered a controversy in Turkey." Nevertheless, last month, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "initiated a...
by Collectif | 14 Jun, 2012 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In its edition of Wednesday 30 May 2012, the daily La Libre Belgique published an article by the Archbishop of Brussels, Monsignor André Leonard, reviewing "10 years of the application of euthanasia" in his country. In his article, the Archbishop of...
by Collectif | 14 Jun, 2012 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Sunday 3 June 2012, several hundred women demonstrated in Istanbul in opposition to the proposal made by the Justice and Development Party (AKP), currently in power in Turkey, to submit a bill reducing from ten to four weeks the period during which abortion is...
by Collectif | 7 Jun, 2012 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated on Friday 25 May 2012 that he regards "abortion as murder." He added: "Nobody should have the right to authorise it. Whether you kill the baby in its mother’s womb or […] after its...
by Collectif | 7 Jun, 2012 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
A team of British researchers led by Lee Smith from the University of Edinburgh has discovered a gene that enables "sperm to develop and become mature." In the course of this study, the researchers discovered that the gene Katnal1 was "indispensable for...
by Collectif | 7 Jun, 2012 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Recently, Israeli researchers led by Prof. Lior Gepstein have succeeded in "transforming human skin cells into heart cells and grafting them on to rat cardiac tissue." This study, published in the European Heart Journal, consisted of taking "skin cells...