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Towards the legalization of surrogate mothers?
The question concerning the legalization of surrogate mothers is one of the crucial points of the revision of the coming bioethics laws. Gestational surrogacy Danielle Moyse, doctor in philosophy and associate researcher at the Centre d’étude des...
Organ procurement: debate on death criteria
The criteria of death questioned An article published on 3rd September 2008 in the first page of the Osservatore Romano, the daily newspaper of Vatican, caused a bit of a furore questioning that the current concept of the brain death is sufficient to declare...
Any lifeless foetus can be registered with the registry of birth and the family record book
New statutory instruments Two decrees (completed with two orders) enabling registering the lifeless foetus with the registry of birth and the family record book and organising funerals (the foetus under 22 weeks were often incinerated with the operating room...
Preparing the revision of the laws of bioethics with the ‘Jérôme Lejeune’ master
The challenges of the next revision of the laws of bioethics will be complex and determining: this new legislation will fundamentally direct our society in matter of health and research. The debates which will precede this revision, organised within the framework of...
“De la pilule au bébé éprouvette” (“From pill to test-tube baby”): INED studies medical (over)consumption
"Individual choices or medical strategies?" Under the direction of Elise de La Rochebrochard, this issue of the Cahiers de l'INED 1 proposes an analysis on "the explosion of medical consumption" in the field of the "reproduction" (contraception, abortion,...
United Kingdom: decriminalisation of man-animal hybrid embryos
British deputies adopted, in a tense atmosphere and after several hours of lively debate, at the end of May, a new law on human fertilisation and embryology. Abortion British legislation – the most liberal in Europe – authorises the voluntary...
Guide politique de bioéthique1 – under the direction of E. de Monfort and P-O. Arduin
A Guide: why? A few months after the revision of the laws of bioethics of 2004, planned for end of 2009 or beginning of 2010, some people are very interested in these delicate subjects and others avoid them thinking that "it is too complicated for me" or "all...
Campaign for promoting oocyte donation
Information campaign Faced with the "lack" of oocytes available for the medically assisted procreation (MAP), the French Biomedicine Agency launched, at the end of May, in collaboration with health professionals and particularly with gynaecologists, a national...
Born of unknown spermatozoid – Arthur Kermalvezen
"Those who make as if children born of artificial insemination with donor sperm can be intensively worried about the story of their conception are idiots." This is how Arthur tells it, straightforwardly. Nor physicians, nor specialists of a Cecos (Centres for the...
The Debaine’s affair: the consequences of a “denial of life”
On last 9th April, the popular jury of the criminal court of Val d’Oise discharged Lydie Debaine, prosecuted for having killed his mentally and motor disabled daughter. On 14th May 2005, Mrs. Debaine administered to her 26-year-old daughter several tranquilizers...
Launching Novussanguis, consortium of research on adult cells
Created at the initiative of Jérôme Lejeune Foundation and of the centre of research on cord blood of the University of Newcastle, the international consortium Novussanguis 1 was officially launched on last 14th May, at the School of Medicine, in the...
From artificial feeding withdrawal to euthanasia
Head of the commission for bioethics of the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, Pierre-Olivier Arduin analyses the status conferred to artificial feeding by the end of life law currently in force. This “detail” could turn against Leonetti Law and threaten the precarious...