by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 11 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
The Finnish Parliament voted 128 to 60 to reject the draft bill to legalise euthanasia. It approved the proposal from the parliamentary commission for Health and Social Affairs “to create a national working party to improve palliative care legislation...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 11 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
The law on medically assisted suicide in California has just been overturned by a Riverside County Superior Court judge. The End of Life Option Act, passed in 2015, authorised assisted suicide for terminally ill patients with less than six months to live[1]. ...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 11 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
With 100,000 fewer births than in 2016, the US birth rate continued to fall in 2017. Today the US government published the 2017 demographic data: The fertility rate has dropped to 1.76 children per woman (versus 1.82 in 2016). There were only 3.8 million births in...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 11 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Since 2014, France has authorised the harvesting of organs from donors who die from circulatory arrest following a decision to reduce or stop treatment in an intensive care unit. More and more organs are being harvested as part of the “Maastricht III...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 11 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
At Hangzhou Number High School in eastern China, artificial intelligence monitors the attention span of pupils and provides feedback to the teacher. In fact, the school management has had three cameras installed at the front of the class and these “mystery...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 11 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
This law dates back to former President Ronald Reagan, but has never been applied (see United States: strengthening the Mexico policy). Today, the US Secretary of Health unveils the new policy banning family planning clinics from carrying out or even encouraging...