by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Nov, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Sixty-nine-year-old Australian Graham Morant was found guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison on 2 November for persuading his wife to commit suicide. This case has set a precedent in Australia. His wife, Jennifer Morant, had been suffering from chronic...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Nov, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
On 30 June 2018, a fifteen-year-old boy and a woman aged twenty-two underwent kidney transplant surgery at the Seville Hospital. The operation went well but their condition soon deteriorated. The young man died on 10 July and the young woman died the next day. ...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Nov, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
“Faced with serious illness, we are all gripped with fear”. Twenty-three physicians from the Grain de Sel group of the College of Physicians of the SFAP (French Society for Support and Palliative Care), have published an article in which they remind...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Nov, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
“The first people on the list of endangered species”. In Canada, during Down Syndrome week, from 1 to 7 November, the Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS) launched a media campaign to drive Down syndrome to the top of the endangered species list, like...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Nov, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
An online survey carried out by the ICGP[1] shows that a quarter of Irish doctors do not want to offer services linked to abortion and are reluctant to refer pregnant women to a colleague. Only 32% of the 3,500 GPs interviewed are currently ready and willing to...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Nov, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
For the first time since euthanasia was legalised in 2002, the public prosecutor has initiated “legal proceedings against a retirement home doctor for performing euthanasia on a 74-year-old female patient with dementia in 2016”. The woman was...