by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The journal Human Reproduction has published a study entitled Cancer Risk in Infertile Women: Analysis of US Claims Data. This research shows a link between infertility and increased cancer, although it cannot specify whether infertility itself, the causes of...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
At the end of April, a clandestine abortion network was dismantled in the city of Marrakech, in Morocco. Six of its members will be tried on 24 May, including two medical interns, a medical student and a pilot who was in charge of importing medicines from Spain. The...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis
During the sexual transition period, transgender people may have to undergo hormone treatment to induce their physical changes. A Dutch study published in the BMJ shows that transgender women (born male) have a higher risk of developing breast cancer compared to the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Eleven Cambodian surrogate mothers arrested in November (see Surrogacy in Cambodia: fifteen new arrests in Phnom Penh) were released on bail last month “in return for promising not to sell their child”. According to Chou Bun Eng, vice-president of the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On Wednesday, the Paris Administrative Court rejected the urgent appeal of Vincent Lambert’s parents for a suspension of the procedure decided by Vincent’s doctor to stop their son’s care. The parents invoked “the serious and manifestly unlawful...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 20 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
The Committee on Public Health in the lower chamber of Chile’s congress approved a bill that would allow 14-year-olds to obtain the means for medically-assisted suicide. This move, approved in extremis by a vote of 7 to 6, had been debated for several weeks by the...