by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 16 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Tuesday evening, the President of Ireland enacted the constitutional law legalising abortion in Ireland. He signed “the thirty-sixth amendment of the constitutional bill which consequently became law”, thereby repealing the 8th Amendment which has...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 16 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
In Egypt, nine people were sentenced on Tuesday by the Cairo Criminal Court with prison sentences of up to 10 years “for their involvement in human organ trafficking”. They were charged with organised crime and the illegal trafficking and transplantation...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 16 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
“Men having babies”, or the baby exhibition (parenting conference) organised with catalogues of surrogate mothers, womb hire and child trafficking is taking place for the fourth time in Brussels, on 22 and 23 September 2018. The organisation presents its...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 16 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
On Tuesday, 18 September, the Paris Court of Appeal granted the plenary—not simple—adoption application filed by the partner of the biological father of twins born through surrogacy in Canada in 2011. In upholding the rulings delivered in November 2016 by...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 16 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
From 1st October in Switzerland, people can sign up to an electronic donor register. Created on the initiative of Swisstransplant, this electronic register offers a “modern solution” to replace the donor card. Registration will be “voluntary”...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 16 Oct, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis
In a document over 100 pages long entitled “La dignité de la procréation” (The dignity of procreation), French bishops—who have unanimously signed the document—take a firm stance against extending medically assisted procreation to lesbian couples and...