by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Jun, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
“The wounded aspirations cannot be cured by all means”. This is this conviction which presents the last book by Sylviane Agacinski 1 called Corps en miettes (Body into pieces). When in the occasion of the revision of the bioethics law, press Medias emphasizes the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Jun, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
When the embryonic selection allows selecting the embryos to implant, Grégory Katz 1 notes the emergence of germinal eugenics. “The birth control here would be placed before the embryonic selection, at the level of the gametogenesis, thus getting round the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Jun, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
The Court of New York has jus authorised a woman to collect the sperm of her dead boyfriend. Another American court, the one of Travis County, authorised a mother, Missy Evans, to preserve the sperm of her son Nikolas, killed on 5th April 2009 in a street fight....
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 May, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
On 28th May 2008, Belgium decriminalised euthanasia. Seven years later, Pr Raphaël Cohen- Almagor, from the University of Hull, UK, evaluates the application of the law in a study called “Politique et pratique de l’euthanasie en Belgique : observations critiques...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 May, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
One of the forums of the Estates General on Bioethics dealt with the research on the embryo, against the backdrop of this question: has the law of 2004 to be kept as it is? The law of 2004 bans the research on embryo but authorises it by derogation for two conditions:...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
A study by the INPES (National Institute for Health Prevention and Education) published in 2007, and called “Les Français et la contraception” (French People and contraception) highlighted the “French paradox”: despite the highest rate of...