by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 24 May, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A one-year-old born through surrogacy to a couple aged 65 and 63 has just been taken into care by UK Social Services who deem that the couple are “too old to look after the child”. The baby was conceived with the sperm of the 65-year-old man and a donor egg,...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 24 May, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A German couple who froze embryos to delay having children face legal proceedings. In fact, following their divorce, the woman forged her ex-husband’s signature on several occasions in order to undergo IVF. She gave birth to a baby boy without her...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 14 May, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
Although the States General on Bioethics consultation, which has just drawn to a close, highlighted numerous claims in terms of medically assisted reproduction and euthanasia, issues relating to the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the medical field...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 14 May, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Italy, a lesbian couple has been unable to register the birth of their baby at the public records office. Chiara Foglietta, a municipal councillor for the city of Turin, gave birth to Niccolo Pietro on 13 April 2018 following artificial insemination in a Danish...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 14 May, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
A Brazilian team at the Sabin Laboratory in Brasilia, keen to extend the use of NIPT (non-invasive prenatal testing) which already covers Down syndrome and two other genetic diseases, has devised a test that can reveal baby’s gender simply by taking a blood...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 14 May, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
According to SART data[1], 71,296 babies were born following IVF treatment in 377 US clinics in 2016. At least 242,618 IVF cycles would have been required to generate this number of births. Each cycle comprises several weeks of hormone therapy to stimulate the...