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![New Zealand: pre-conception tests for all future parents](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/29_nourisson_14.jpg)
New Zealand: pre-conception tests for all future parents
New Zealand now recommends pre-conception testing for all couples. Until now, these expensive genetic tests were only offered to so-called "high-risk" women, i.e. those with a family history of serious or fatal genetic disease. But as Martin Delatycki, clinical...
![Xenotransplants: are the first human trials imminent?](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/04_clonage_17.jpg)
Xenotransplants: are the first human trials imminent?
Researchers in South Korea are expected to transplant pig corneas into humans "within a year". Several teams in the United States are also preparing to launch clinical trials of xenotransplantation: pig skin transplants on six major burn victims in Boston, and...
![Abortion: the “heartbeat bill” passed in Georgia](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/istock-179101879_7.jpg)
Abortion: the “heartbeat bill” passed in Georgia
On 30 March, Georgia lawmakers voted to ban abortion “as soon as a heartbeat is detected in the embryo ", as early as the sixth week of pregnancy. The measure allows exceptions in the event of medical complications, or if the mother's life or health is in danger....
![A pregnant women bearing a little girl with Down syndrome offered an abortion by her doctor](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/istock-468469005_1-1080x675.jpg)
A pregnant women bearing a little girl with Down syndrome offered an abortion by her doctor
"The doctor asked me if this baby was planned and said: ‘You’re young, so why would you want to keep this baby when your chances of having another baby with Down syndrome are really low? You could try again, to have a normal one’". Lucas and Emily McCain are the...
![US, $1.7 million awarded to an anti-abortion organization](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/30_nourisson_21.jpg)
US, $1.7 million awarded to an anti-abortion organization
In the U.S., the Trump Administration has awarded a grant of $5.1 million for the next three years, including $1.7 million for this year, to the non-profit organization the Obria Group. The funds come from Title X of the family planning fund, which excludes abortion...
![Extremely premature lambs kept alive in an “artificial uterus”](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/placenta_artificiel.jpg)
Extremely premature lambs kept alive in an “artificial uterus”
In 2017, a team of researchers announced that they had kept premature lamb foetuses alive in an "artificial uterus". Last month, the same scientists said that they had made a "leap forward" by carrying out the same experiment with "extremely premature" lambs [1]....
![Survey: New Yorkers mostly opposed to late-term abortions](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/12_grossesse_4-1080x675.jpg)
Survey: New Yorkers mostly opposed to late-term abortions
According to surveys, New York State residents are massively overwhelmingly opposed to late-term abortions. Barely two months after the Governor of New York legalized abortion until birth[1], a survey by Marist Poll showed that only 20% of New Yorkers are in favour of...
![In vitro fertilization associated with small increase in childhood cancer risk](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/06_fin_de_vie_euthanasie_enfant_17.jpg)
In vitro fertilization associated with small increase in childhood cancer risk
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have carried out a large-scale study to investigate the risk of cancer in children born from IVF[1]. This study, published in JAMA Paediatrics, included 2,542,533 children born between 2004 and 2013 in 14 American states,...
![A 61-year-old American woman gives birth to her own granddaughter](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/16_adoption_10.jpg)
A 61-year-old American woman gives birth to her own granddaughter
An American woman in Nebraska gave birth to her granddaughter on 25 March at the age of 61. "If you want me to be the gestational carrier, I’d do it in a heartbeat," Cecile Eledge had said to her son Matthew. Little Uma Louise was born to Cecile a few days...
![“Two is enough!” – Egypt intends to limit the number of children to two per family](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/egypt-703546_640.jpg)
“Two is enough!” – Egypt intends to limit the number of children to two per family
As early as 2017, President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi accused "overpopulation" of being one of the "two greatest threats to Egypt", on a par with terrorism. With 98.4 million inhabitants, Egypt is the third most populous country in Africa after Nigeria and Ethiopia. It is...
![Abortion: Indiana extends the right of conscientious objection to all health professionals](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/05_objection_consience_16.jpg)
Abortion: Indiana extends the right of conscientious objection to all health professionals
Indiana has just passed a new law extending the right of conscientious objection to abortion. Doctors and employees of hospitals and clinics already had the right - for “ethical, moral, or religious reasons” - to not “perform an abortion or participate in a procedure...
![First kidney transplant from a living HIV-positive donor](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/sans-titre-1080x675.png)
First kidney transplant from a living HIV-positive donor
Since a federal law enacted by Barack Obama in 2013, people with AIDS have been allowed to donate their organs to recipients who are also HIV positive upon their death. However, living donations were not allowed, as the donor's remaining kidney was at risk of being...