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Colloquium End of life, and if we really talked about it: the essential of the debates.
The workshops of the bioethics, in collaboration with Généthique and the French National Observatory on End of Life (ONFV) organized a colloquium in the Palais Bourbon on 1st February 2013 on the theme End of Life: and if we really talked about it. This day gathered...
Euthanasia: a colloquium to really talk about it…
In August the marketing of new tests of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) burst into the European mass media. The observers waiting for this evolution for a long time have been surprised by the offensive, and associations felt aggressed by the disabled people...
Research on the human embryo: to the challenge of the principle of prohibition?
While the law of Bioethics 2011 maintained the principle of prohibition of the research on the human embryo, a bill adopted on last 4th December by the Senate could challenge this founding prohibition. Will the principle of protection of the human being be an...
A questioning for the prohibition of the preimplantation diagnosis (PID) by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)?
By a judgment from 28th August 2012, the ECHR condemned Italy for its legislation in matter of PID. The prohibition in principle of this practice by the Italian law was judged contrary to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights (ECPHR). But on what...
The new tests of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD)
In August the marketing of new tests of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) burst into the European mass media. The observers waiting for this evolution for a long time have been surprised by the offensive, and associations felt aggressed by the disabled people...
Argentina: a magistrate suspends an abortion after a rape
According to the Judicial Information Centre (JIC), "the abortion by a woman of 32 who had been raped was suspended at the last minute on Tuesday in a hospital on Buenos Aires" by the decision of a magistrate, Miriam Rustan de Estrada. According to the facts, this...
Reactions to the award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2012
After being awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2012, the British biologist John B. Gurdon said that he was "immensely honoured to be awarded this spectacular recognition, and delighted to be due to receive it with Shinya Yamanaka, whose work has brought the...
Spain: 2,000 demonstrators against abortion
On Sunday 7 October, "around 2,000 people demonstrated to call for a total ban on abortion, at a time when the Conservative Spanish government is preparing a law restricting the current legislation, adopted in 2010 by the Socialists." The spokesperson of the...
Northern Ireland: opening of a private abortion clinic
On 18 October, "the first private clinic to carry out abortions in Northern Ireland will open in Belfast." In a press release, the Marie Stopes Foundation, which will be managing the clinic, states that "the clinic will carry out abortions within the...
ENCODE: an encyclopedia which reveals that “DNA on its own is nothing”
In order to obtain a clearer understanding of the functioning of the human genome, a scientific project called ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) has led to the publication of 30 articles in several scientific journals: Nature, Genome Biology and Genome Research....
Respect of human embryo: a legal victory but a questioning future
In France, the legislation establishes a prohibition principle of the research on the human embryo and the embryonic stem cells. It is only for this derogation that the Agency of Biomedicine (ABM) can authorize this type of research. But, on 10th May 2012, at the...
Anonymous childbirth and respect of the anonymity of the mother: A right in compliance with the Constitution
Seized on 16th March with a Priority Question of Constitutionality (PQC), the Constitutional Council declared in compliance with the Constitution the law into force related to anonymous childbirth. In France, between 600 and 700 women would be concerned each year....