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After-birth abortion: How far will we deny the personality of the human being?
The journal of Medical Ethics takes over an article from two philosophers, experts in bioethics, Francesca Minerva1, and Alberto Giubilini2 "After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?)". Supporters of new-born baby homicide, the authors push the abortion logic...
World Down Syndrome Day and performance of diagnosis tests: what is the coherence?
The bioethics actuality of March focused on Down syndrome. Indeed the 21st of March 2012 was defined as the “World Down syndrome Day”, recognized for the first time by UNO. In this particular context, Gènéthique proposes again to echo this controversial ethical...
Denouncement of a mass eugenics in the framework of the prenatal diagnosis
The second edition of the European Bioethics Forum called "Procréation : la famille en chantier " treated with the beginning of life. The speakers have particularly treated questions related to prenatal diagnosis (PND) and medically assisted procreation (MAP). If...
Perruche jurisprudence: the threat reappears
By a judgment of 15th December 2011, the Court of Cassation has affirmed that the children, born before the anti-Perruche law enters into force (which prohibits the recognition of a damage because of her/his birth, and limits the compensation of the parents to their...
Theory of the gender: governmental inaction and silent interference in the Parliament
Whereas the petitions challenging the presence of the theory of the gender on the SVT (Life and Earth Sciences) textbooks of the sixth year of high school reach significant numbers of signatories (1) and carry on circulating on Internet (2) , the Minister...
Ratification of Oviedo Convention: a minimum of ethical guidelines
Twelve years that we were expecting it, the "Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine" called "Oviedo Convention" has been ratified...
25 years of Telethon: the dark side
This year the 25 years of the Telethon must not make forget the critical analysis of this event installed in the French media landscape. Recently, the biologist Jacques Testart renewed his denunciation of the eugenic selection performed, among others, with Telethon...
Interruption of the 1st clinical trial with CSEh: what we can understand
Geron, a Californian company, announced the 14th November that it stopped its clinical trial, on humans, for a treatment using human embryonic stem cell line (GRNOPC1 line). Initiated in October 2010, this trial dedicated to paralyzed patients following to total...
Medicine: an alienated role
During a conference in the International Ethics Colloquium which took place in Paray-le Monial from 11th to 13th November, Pierre-Yves Gomez, specialist in political economy, looked at the existing links between economy and vulnerability in our society. Here we report...
Controversy on the gender in high school: a challenge which became political
The controversy related to the introduction of the theory of the gender in high school continues. A pool from Ifop published in Valeurs Actuelles on 17th November and a happening of professors in front of the school of medicine of Paris on 20th November invite again...
Alerts from catholic authorities on the genetic selection
During his last travel to Germany, on 22nd September 2011, Pope Benedict XVI underlined, in front of the Bundestag, the existence of an “ecology of the man”, a point "widely neglected" today. Against a utilitarian vision of the human person, he reminded that the man...
Europe: condemnation of the prenatal sex selection
Europe looked into the problem of sex selection which affects some European countries alarmingly. Indeed, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia experience a net unbalance between births of boys and girls. Now we count 112 boys for 100 girls, a comparable rate to...