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The Constitutional Council recognises anti-Perruche law
On 11th June 2010, the Constitutional council declared conform to the Constitution (1) the law of 4th March 2002, called anti-Perruche law. This law was questioned by the mother of a myopathic child, Mss Viviane L., who seized the Constitutional council on 14th April...
Study on adults born through sperm donation
The Commission sur l’avenir de la condition parentale, academician and expert team which thinks about the "legal, ethical, social and scientific situation of parents in the contemporaneous society" published on 3rd June 2010 a report called: "My father’s name is...
Opinion 110 of the CCNE: against surrogate mothers
On 6th May 2010, the Consultative National Ethics Committee (CCNE) rendered an opinion on the ethical risks related to surrogacy or surrogate mothers. The great majority of the members pronounced in favour of the conservation of the current legislation. In France the...
The anti-Perruche law threatened by unconstitutionality
The law of 4th March 2002 or anti-Perruche law which poses the principle according which “no one can take advantage from a prejudice for the sole fact of his birth” is subject to a “priority issue of constitutionality” (PQC). From 1st March 2010, this procedure...
L’aube du moi – Pr. Carlo Valerio Bellieni
Is the foetus a person? This is this question L’aube du moi, by Carlo Valerio Bellieni, professor in neonatology at the university of Sienne and member of European Society of Paediatric research wants to answer. When "we often deny that the foetus is a person...
Handicap : for a revolution of the look – Danielle Moyse
When the "respect" we grant to beings is often measured by power scale, social status or prestige, how to go beyond the disgrace of the disabled body to welcome the other as it is? This is the question the philosopher Danielle Moyse, teacher-researcher at the IRIS...
Infantile euthanasia: Asking for the death of your own baby
The Cochin Hospital Clinical Ethics Centre published in June 2009 a leaflet called Demander la mort de son enfant…, elaborated from the acts of a working day of the Committee on infantile euthanasia of May 2008. Coordinated by Eric Favereau, journalist...
Revision of the laws of bioethics: a transgressive report
The parliamentarian mission’s report on the revision of the laws of bioethics presented by Jean Leonetti was published on Wednesday 20th of January 2010. As the UMP-PCD deputy from the Yvelines department Jean-Frédéric Poisson notes it, "the report was not the...
Mobilization in favour of palliative care: the opinion 108 of the CCNE
Euthanasia rejected by deputies At the end of November 2009, deputies have rejected with 326 votes against 202, the bill supported by the socialist Manuel Valls on euthanasia. He wanted to establish a “medical assistance to die in dignity”. Concretely, the text...
Geron: prohibition of the clinical trial with human embryonic cells
Authorisation of the FDA At the beginning of 2009 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted authorization to Geron Corporation, the leader company in research on embryonic stem cells, for a clinical trial on patients withlesions of spinal...
To save the planet: should we reduce birth rate?
Antinatalism (reduction of birth rate) for ecological reasons? If the idea is not original, it comes back in force today, to the point of inspiring reports from important international organisations. This way the 2009 report of the United Nations Population Fund...
Opinion 107 of the CCNE: extension of PGD to Down syndrome and to predispositions
News about Down syndrome show the contradictions of our society regarding Down syndrome people: "We are all disconcerted by this handicap. No one can deny the humanity of these children. And yet…The French society has difficulties to face it”, the newspaper Libération...