by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
In 2018, about 3.7 million babies were born in the United States, a 2% decrease from 2017, according to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This holds true for all ethnic groups. It is the greatest...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
“I inform you that the cessation of treatment and the continuous deep sedation evoked during the collegiate procedure will start in the week beginning 20 May,” Dr Sanchez, Vincent Lambert’s doctor, announced last Friday in a letter to the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
“A friend told me it was a good way to make easy money,” explained Chloé, a 23-year-old Belgian student who plans to use the €2,000 to buy a car or go on holiday. Sylvie has already received €8,000 for her four oocyte donations, which she used to...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Reversing a 2017 court decision, the Italian Court of Appeal has ruled that the non-biological father of two children born to a surrogate mother abroad could not be designated as the children’s legal parent. In this case, a homosexual couple used an oocyte donor and a...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
According to the Beijing Youth Daily, young Chinese female students who volunteer to donate their oocytes receive “payments” for “subsistence costs” that can be more than 400,000 yuan, i.e. about €50,000. The survey published yesterday by the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
The UK High Court found that a four-year-old child “had suffered no harm” from the full sex reassignment operation decided on by his parents. Following the operation and after the parents sent their son to school in a girl’s uniform, social services...