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From the legalisation of the VTP, the post-abortion syndrome remains widely taboo. However, since the beginning of the year, several "general public" articles have been dedicated to psychological sequelae resulting from abortion.   VTP: right or trauma?   On...

On last 9th March, the National Ethics Advisory Committee (CCNE) published an opinion in which it pronounces in favour of post-mortem1 embryo transfer. This opinion came to consolidate the vote of MPs who have, on last 15th February, within the framework of the...

During the vote of the bill on bioethics in the National Assembly, MPs have adopted an amendment – the amendment 70 – which modifies the article 9, paragraph 4 regarding prenatal diagnosis (PND). This amendment expresses a desire to avoid the systematisation of the...

On last 8th February, when the parliamentary debates on the bill related to bioethics opened, a lot a people denounced the eugenical drifts of the prenatal diagnosis (PND). The bill submitted in first reading to MPs reinforced significantly the mandatory character of...

On 15th February, 2011, MPs have adopted, in first reading, the bioethics bill with 272 votes against 216. Let’s go back to the main provisions of the text which will be submitted to the Senate before the summer.   Organ donations   Against the government...

The Senate Committee on Social Affairs adopted on 18th January 2011, a bill aiming at legalise euthanasia. Adopted at 25 votes against 19 and 2 abstentions the first article stipulates that “any major capable person, in terminal or advanced phase of serious and...

We want to show that despite the reminder and the maintenance of the founding principle to prohibit the creation of human embryo for research as defined by the article L.2151-2 of the French Public Health Code “the in vitro conception of human embryo for research...

In October 2010 the parliamentary assembly of the European Council adopted a text reminding that the right to conscience objection is firmly rooted in the international law and the European Convention on Human Rights. This Resolution affirms again strongly that "no...

On 1st December 2010, the National Ethics Advisory Committee (CCNE), delivered its opinion 112, called "An ethical reflection on the research human embryonic cells, and the research on in vitro human embryo". For the first time, the CCNE gave recommendations in terms...

A conference on Eugenics in November 2010 at René-Descartes Paris V medical school studied the “effective acting in medicine” in the light of history and genetics. The speakers are worried faced with the evolution of biomedical techniques and called for vigilance,...

The laws of bioethics elaborated in 1994 foresaw that these laws are revised every 5 years. After the revision of 2004, a new law has to be voted early 2011. The bill has been presented to the French Council of Ministers on 20th October 2010 by Roselyne Bachelot. Some...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rejected on 7th October 2010, the resolution project by Christine McCafferty. She opposed the right of conscientious objection of health professionals, especially for "reproductive health", i.e. abortion, but...