by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 7 Jan, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
In late November, He Jiankui announced that twins had been born with a gene that he had edited to make them resistant to infection with HIV (see China: birth of two genetically edited babies). The changes were made to the CCR5 gene, which has been the subject of...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 7 Jan, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
The Ohio Senate voted 18 votes in favour and 13 votes against the bill that would ban abortion as soon as a heartbeat is detected. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives last month (see Ohio: draft bill to ban abortion of foetuses with detectable...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 7 Jan, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Seven months after the referendum that began the procedure for decriminalizing abortion in Ireland, Parliament passed the bill on Thursday (see In Ireland, marketing authorisation for the abortion pill and Irish Referendum: abortion decriminalised). The bill...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 7 Jan, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In Belgium, the House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday 13 December that will allow a foetus to be registered starting at140 days after conception, or 4.5 months. Women who wish to do so in order to facilitate the grieving process and preserve a trace of...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 18 Dec, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Following the revelation of the birth of two genetically modified babies in China last week, WHO announced the establishment of a “panel to study gene editing”. WHO “brings together experts and we work with Member States (…) to discuss criteria and guidelines that can...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 18 Dec, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In the United States, in the state of Indiana, a proposed bill aims to make it a criminal offence for a doctor, in the context of infertility treatment, to use either his own sperm without the consent of his patient or to use the sperm of a donor without his consent....