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The prenatal diagnosis, “arme redoutable de la sélection invisible” from Danielle Moyse (1)
On 21st March 2014, 3rd World Down Syndrome day, the Collectif les amis d’Eléonore organized at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (ESEC) a congress on Down syndrome. Danielle Moyse, philosopher, raised ethical questions about prenatal diagnosis...
“Making children tomorrow”
according to Jacques Testart, pioneer of the MAP1 Jacques Testart, "scientific father" of the first test-tube baby in 1982, warns about the eugenics drifts of the pre-implantation diagnosis (PID). His last book "Faire des enfants demain" prevents the...
Vincent Lambert case: Has the Council of State already favoured euthanasia?
The media coverage of Vincent Lambert case keeps France breathless. Instrumentalisation or simple coincidence, whereas the Council of State (CE) will decide, by one month, about the passive euthanasia of V. Lambert, the Parliament will study the bill on...
The opinion 122 of the CCNE on neuro-improvement
In its last opinion(1) published in February 2014, the French National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE) wonders about the ethical issues raised by the resort to techniques of neuro-improvement in non-ill subjects. Olivier Rey, head of research at CNRS...
Europe and France, turmoil around euthanasia
On 25th January 2012, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), adopted the Resolution 1859 (2012) “Protecting human rights and dignity by taking into account previously expressed wishes of patients”. This Resolution defines the applicable...
The extension of VTP marks the man rejection
On Tuesday 28th January, French MPs voted, in first reading, with 359 votes against 24, the bill for equality between women and men. This way they endorse two controversial provisions: the suppression of the concept of distress to access to abortion, and...
The voluntary termination of pregnancy: pending liberalisation at the Parliament
If the feminist lobbies were been hampered at European level, thanks to the defeat of the Estrela1 report, now France has their pressures in favour of abortion. Deputies will debate on 20th January 2014 a bill for the equality between women and men which contains...
Point of view of a professional on the will to liberalize abortion
Interview of Benoit Bayle, psychiatrist and doctor in philosophy1 G: The bill for equality between women and men aims at establishing a “right to abortion” by removing the condition of “situation of distress” of the pregnant woman who wants to abort. What do...
The conscientious objection: the duty to disobey. Interview of Jacques Suaudeau
The conscientious objection is increasingly giving rise to questions for health professionals particularly due to the emergence of fictive rights, which mistakenly become real rights in the public opinion: right to control your own body, right to abortion, right to...
Voluntary termination of pregnancy: the French blindness
The conscientious objection which is the more often invoked regarding abortion could be removed from the legal text currently in force. On 5th April 2013, the Minister for rights of women had seized the High Council for equality between women and men (HCEfh) asking it...
The neonatal resuscitation in questions: when the therapeutic obstinacy leads to euthanasia of new-born babies
In an essay called On ne peut imposer ça à personne1, Laurence Henry, anesthetist nurse, raised medical and ethical questions relative to neonatal resuscitation. Indeed, the technique allowed reducing the child mortality but sometimes at the risk of causing injuries...
Resolution on sexual and reproductive health and rights(1): the LGBTI(2) and pro-abortion lobby thwarted by European citizens
On Tuesday 22nd October 2013, European MPs reviewed a resolution3 on sexual and reproductive health and rights, presented by Edite Estrela4. Adopted by the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, on 18th September 2013, the text should have been adopted...