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The researches using human embryos are not patentable
Seized by the German Federal Court within the framework of the affair Oliver Brüstle against Greenpeace (1), the European Court of Justice rendered, on last 18th October, a judgment concerning the interpretation of the European directive 98/44/CE related to legal...
Bonnemaison case: euthanasia in question
The Nicolas Bonnemaison case, from the name of the emergency physician charged on 12th August 2011 for "poisoning" on "particularly vulnerable persons", restarted the debate on the legalisation of euthanasia in France. The physician, who has worked in the Hospital...
Pontifical council for the family: Gender, the controversy
In order to answer the questions raised by the introduction of the theory of the gender in the biology manuals of grades 1, the Pontifical council for the family published, on 12th September 2011, a book gathering the analyses of 7 experts. Called Gender, la...
A.-D. Julliand: Deux petits pas sur le sable mouillé
Thaïs is a happy, lively and voluntary little girl, a two-year old girl that nothing distinguishes from other little girls, except her walk: "an adorable but quite hesitating walk" which makes her thumb turns outwards. Yet this is this charming walk that revealed to...
The theory of gender at high school: an ideological education
After Sciences-Po Paris, which dedicated them a chair and an obligatory education in 2010, the gender studies will be needed for high school students (premières L, S and ES - sixth year of secondary school) from the new school year 2011 within the framework of SVT...
Illegal pharmacists
Drug VTP, euthanasia, emergency contraception …Today the pharmacist is an indispensable link to ensure the good development of numerous practices prejudicial to human life. "The pharmacist cannot renounce the requirements of his conscience in the name of the laws of...
Survey at the family planning
Several journalists of l’Homme Nouveau have carried out a survey in order to know from inside the speech, the advice and the "services" given by the centres of family planning in matter of abortion1. According to different scenarios carefully prepared, they surveyed...
Final vote of the law of bioethics: balance
After three years of preparation, hearings, debates, the revision text of the law of bioethics is finally voted. After a first reading in the National Assembly (see. Monthly letter of February 2011) and in the Senate (see. Monthly letter of April 2011), it has new...
Switzerland: some markers on assistance and incitement with suicide
On 15th May 2011, the inhabitants of the canton of Zurich have been invited to vote, within the framework of a popular consultation on the assistance to suicide and the "tourism of death". In Switzerland, the incitement and the assistance to suicide are authorised by...
The Ministry of National Education adopts the contraception pass
The "contraception pass" invades the French high schools region after region. Launched on 26th April 2011 by the chairman of the Regional Council of Ile-de-France Jean-Paul Huchon (PS), this plan which aims at facilitating the access to the contraception for...
Research on human embryo: a European hope
In an open letter published on 28th April 2011 in the magazine Nature, 13 European scientists working on human embryonic stem cells (CESh) have expressed their concern about a possible prohibition, at European level, of the patentability of innovations using CESh. On...
Law of Bioethics: the French Senate torpedoes the text of the French National Assembly
The bill on bioethics has been examined by the French Senate Committee on Social Affairs on 29th and 30th March 2011 before to be discussed in session on 5th to 8th April 2011. This second parliamentary reading – after the first one in the National Assembly – was the...