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“Ethical surrogacy’ will always be a contradiction in terms”
Jean-Paul Van de Walle, who has been called to the Brussels Bar, has revisited the need to ban surrogacy in Belgium when the Belgian Senate has just unanimously accepted a report on this subject, drafted by the Commission des affaires institutionnelles (Institutional...
The Mexican state of Tabasco bans surrogacy for homosexual couples and foreigners
The Mexican State of Tabasco is currently the only state in the country to authorise non-commercial surrogacy. Consequently, it has attracted numerous strangers and gay couples who want to become parents. In surrogacy terms, Mexico is thus an alternative to the...
Gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease?
An adolescent suffering from sickle cell disease is “in the process of being cured”. He took part in a stem cell clinical trial conducted by Professor Marina Cavazzana at the Necker Children’s Hospital, Paris Public Hospitals and the Imagine Institute in September...
In the United Kingdom, the Tinder application makes young people aware of organ donation
In Great Britain, the Tinder application has teamed up with the National Health Service (NHS) to launch an organ donation awareness campaign known as The Wait. The campaign mainly targets young people between 18 and 35 years of age – the main users of Tinder. ...
United States: Another surrogate mother forced to have an abortion
After Melissa Cook, another surrogate mother in California[1] was subjected last month to pressure from the intended parents to have an abortion at seventeen weeks, 26 year-old Brittneyrose Torres, is keen to recount her story to protect other surrogate mothers from a...
Creation of a research company to avoid artificial intelligence spin-offs
OpenAI was officially launched on Friday. This is a “research company” which “aims to prevent artificial intelligence spin-offs”. Composed of “several Silicon Valley stakeholders”, the aim of Open AI is “to allow numerical intelligence to advance since this is the...
Great Britain in the race towards genetic modification of human embryos
During the London seminar entitled, “From Three-Person IVF to Genome Editing” organised by the Educational Trust Progress (PET) on Wednesday, 9 December at University College London, Professor Mark Walport, the Government’s Scientific Advisor, announced that the...
Sierra-Leone legalises abortion
On Tuesday, Sierra Leone adopted The Safe Abortion Act, a law which makes abortion legal and replaces the law of 1861, which banned abortion in West African countries unless the mother’s life was in danger. The Act, which has yet to be signed and passed...
Long-term contraception leads to more abortion
A study [1]conducted by the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and published in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care has shown that women using an implant or an injectable form of contraception after an initial abortion are more likely than...
Quebec: Assisted suicide law passed despite Supreme Court ban
Today, in Quebec, a law has been passed authorising recourse to assisted suicide in the case of an incurable and terminal illness, solely at the patient’s request. In fact, the Quebec Court of Appeal has just authorised Quebec to appeal against the ruling concerning...
Japan takes steps to remain in pole position for regenerative medicine
Japan, which is now a recognised IPS pioneer, has invested in buildings and state-of-the-art equipment to generate resources to consolidate its position. Recently, it also reviewed its marketing authorisation process for medicinal products and created an accelerated...
Nanomedication – is a medical revolution within our grasp?
Professor Avi Schroeder is in charge of the Technion[1]Laboratory in Jerusalem, which focuses on the “targeted administration of medicinal products and personalised medical technologies”. He is investigating “how to release medicinal products into the body in order...