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Inverted embryos: Italian court decides in favour of the mother carrying the children
In April 2014, the Italian newspaper, La Stampa, reported on a case of inverted embryos during medically assisted procreation (MAP) (Gènéthique press review on April 14th, 2014). At the Sandro Pertini Hospital in Rome during prenatal genetic tests on twins...
See you in September for the press syntheses release
Until the end of August Gènéthique team suspends syntheses release. However, it continues to monitor the national and international bioethics news to send to subscribers a summary at the end of the summer. -> Gènéthique team looks forward to seeing you on...
Abortion: Italian doctors denied conscientious objection
The Council of Europe Social Rights Committee has just condemned Italy, granting the request of the International Family Planning Federation, which, in 2012, in Italy, denounced the “excessive number of doctors refusing to carry out abortions on the grounds of...
Down syndrome: “Gammy is a perfect baby”
During the summer of 2014, the world’s media recounted the story of Baby Gammy with Down syndrome, who was born through surrogacy and abandoned by his intended parents (Gènéthique press review on August 4th, 2014). Last week, the Sunday Telegraph published a report by...
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[ZOOM] Down Syndrome and social stigma: two revealing cases
Two news stations in succession have struck public opinion as they reveal the social stigma victimising people with Down syndrome. Also concerned, the President of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation voices his reaction. First and foremost, the decision of the...
UN: heading towards universal legalisation of abortion?
Christophe Foltzenlogel, lawyer at the ECLJ - European Centre for Law and Justice – has drawn attention to changes in the "Millennium Development Goals and post-2015 Development Agenda" adopted by the UN in September 2000 at the "Millennium Summit". The...
“The right to assisted suicide – European Court case law”
On 14 May 2013, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned Switzerland for its legislation of assisted suicide deeming that it lacked precision and should be governed by legal as opposed to deontological standards. Consequently, and at the request of the...
The Netherlands: heading towards the legalisation of euthanasia for minors under 12 years of age?
Last February, Belgium became the first country in the world to authorise euthanasia for minors without an age limit. Only the Netherlands had a comparable law with a slight difference: it applied solely to minors aged 12 years and over. However, this condition...
Italy: first ovule donor pregnancy after lifting the ban on infertility treatments
Last April, the Italian Constitutional Court deemed that the ban on in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) involving a third donor was contrary to the Constitution (Gènéthique press review on April 7th, 2014). Therefore, in June, the more general ban on...
Three parent IVF: does the avant-garde approach worry the British Government?
In 2010, Professor Turnbull at the University of Newcastle published an update on the IVF technique known as the "Three Parent IVF approach" in the Nature journal. In a document published on 22 July 2014, the British Government estimated that...
Russia introduces sanctions in the event of illegal abortion
The Kremlin has just announced on its Internet site that Vladimir Poutine has signed a draft bill imposing sanctions in the event of illegal abortion. The draft bill imposes fines ranging from 4,000 to 5,000 roubles ($ 143) for private individuals, 10,000...
United States: Asians travel to the US to have a baby boy and the English to have a baby girl
On Monday, we mentioned that gender selection was a current and disconcerting practice in Asia, starting with India which discriminates against and aborts female foetuses. It now appears that the United States is one of the countries practising this selection not in...