by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 18 Dec, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
In Iran, the birth of babies diagnosed with Down’s syndrome has almost stopped. According to Mahmoud Tavallaei, director of the Iranian Genetics Society of Iran, “Over the past few years, only one baby has been born with Down syndrome in 700 to 1,000 births in Iran”....
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 18 Dec, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Conscientious objection
Irish general practitioners will have the right not to perform abortions if they do not wish to, but they will be required to provide all the information patients need to access abortion elsewhere, said Harris Simon, Irish Minister of Health. “No doctor, no nurse, no...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 18 Dec, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Following the transplantation of a deceased donor’s uterus, a first baby was born in Brazil last year. The study was published today in the journal The Lancet. The University Hospital of Sao Paulo, where the transplant took place, reports that the little girl...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 18 Dec, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
British citizens have called on the UK government to investigate illegal abortions carried out in Kenya by the UK-funded NGO Marie Stopes. Last week, the Kenyan government shut down the abortion clinics run by Marie Stopes (see Kenya: the Ministry of Health...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 18 Dec, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Thirty-two surrogate mothers arrested in Phnom Penh last June were released after pledging to keep their babies rather than giving them up to the Chinese sponsors (see Cambodia – police raid child surrogacy ring involving 33 surrogate mothers). “In exchange for...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 18 Dec, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Researchers at the University of Munich transplanted pig hearts to baboons that survived for more than six months. The study published in Nature on December 6 reports that one of the baboons survived up to 195 days, “a record that suggests that human clinical trials...