Search
The mental consequences of abortion revealed
On 13th September 2013, the Haut Conseil à l’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes (HCEfh) (Council for equality between men and women) delivered a report to the Minister N.Vallaud-Belkacem, calling for the creation of institutional tools (Website “in favour to the...
The foetus is sensitive to pain… and emotions
by Professor Emmanuel SAPIN1 While Carlo Bellieni wonders about the pain of the woman after abortion, what does experience the foetus? An article, published in NYTimes.com mid-September, informed that the U.S. House of Representatives voted a bill tending to...
MAP is 40 years old in France: the rush forward
To mark the 40 years of the Centres for study and preservation of human eggs and sperm (CECOS) a two-day debate has been organized at the Palais Bourbon on 12th and 13th September. The French Minister for Health Marisol Touraine introduced these days dedicated...
France authorizes the research on human embryo
In At 4:45 pm on Thursday 16 July 2013, French Parliament adopted the authorization of the research on the embryo with 314 votes against 223. In the middle of the summer, a legal and ethical turmoil is enshrined in the French law whereas the botched debate has been...
Will the AMP and the Surrogacy for homosexuals come faster than announced?
The secrete but active mobilization of lobbies and institutions The law for homosexual marriage has just been voted that the pressures are orchestrated to obtain other evolutions. Mid-July 2013, the French Obstetrician Gynecologists members of the...
Opinion of the CCNE, ministerial order… Would people with Down syndrome be a national target?
In less than one month Down syndrome has become a relentless subject. After the opinion 120 of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE) giving its blessing to the new prenatal diagnosis (PND) test for Down syndrome, foetuses carriers of this pathology...
Interview of Albert Barrois, scientific blogger (1)
G: Cell (2) published the “discovery” from American scientists affirming to have succeeded in creating embryonic stem cells by therapeutic cloning. Can you enlighten us on this announcement, from a scientific and ethic point of view? A.B: These researchers...
The right to assisted suicide, a fundamental right?
On May 2013, the second section of the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) rendered a judgment (Alda Gross vs. Switzerland) participating in establishing an individual right to assisted suicide which would derived from the right to private life (article 8 of the...
Bioethics crisis: Interview of Henri Hude
On the bioethics challenges, the news, the point of view of decision makers, institutional investors and policy makers reveal a libertarian thought and the cult of the transgression. In France, 2013 started off very strongly: reimbursement at 100% for the voluntary...
Research on the embryo: 10 reasons to say no
On 28th March MPs will debate about the bill lifting the ban on the research on the human embryo. But this bill includes a legal and ethical revolution without scientific basis. For the citizens who have been deprived of a debate on the question, here are the ten main...
“The scandal of laboratory embryos”
The same day of the examination by the National Assembly of the bill authorizing the research on human embryonic stem cells, Jean-Marie Le Méné, chairman of Fondation Lejeune, published a column in La Croix (1), reported below. Contrary to what ones thinks, the...
The question of organ removal on controlled cardiac death donors
While At the occasion of the 41st International Congress of the Society of French Language Resuscitation, the Parliamentary Office for Scientific and Technological Assessment (OPECST) under the impulsion of the Agency of Biomedicine (ABM) organized on 7th February...