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![Contraception and side effects: British women complain of lack of information](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/21_contraception_2-1-600x675.jpg)
Contraception and side effects: British women complain of lack of information
According to a new study published by The Femedic on women's health and education, 75% of women in the United Kingdom believe that they have not been fully informed by their doctor of the side effects of their contraception—either when the medication was first...
![Automatic rights to US citizenship: impact on surrogacy market](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/buffer-1143485_960_720.jpg)
Automatic rights to US citizenship: impact on surrogacy market
In an interview published last week, Donald Trump reiterated his desire to end automatic rights to US citizenship. This would involve passing an executive order challenging this principle included in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. His aim is to prevent the...
![Paraplegics walk again thanks to spinal implant and intense rehabilitation](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/17_handicap_2.jpg)
Paraplegics walk again thanks to spinal implant and intense rehabilitation
Three individuals with paralysed legs managed to walk again without stimulation. Although American researchers recently got a paraplegic individual to take a few steps by electrically stimulating the spinal cord (see United States: paraplegic walks a few metres with...
![Great quality female embryo offered for male embryo: when embryos are traded in classified ads](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/04_embryonhu72h_5-1080x675.jpg)
Great quality female embryo offered for male embryo: when embryos are traded in classified ads
"We have a great quality female embryo... like to consider a trade?" These were the words posted by a 37-year-old American actress in an IVF Facebook group to find a little brother for her son who asked for a baby brother the week before. After several...
![Rising success of IVF causes collapse in adoptions in England and Wales](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/boy-2208513_640_3.jpg)
Rising success of IVF causes collapse in adoptions in England and Wales
Over the last 40 years, i.e. since the birth of the first "test-tube baby", adoptions in England and Wales have fallen by 62%. At the same time, the success of IVF in women under the age of 35 has almost tripled. Anthony Douglas is the CEO of the...
![A 69-year-old Australian man convinced his wife to commit suicide and gets a ten-year prison sentence](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/09_fin_de_vie_123-693x675.jpg)
A 69-year-old Australian man convinced his wife to commit suicide and gets a ten-year prison sentence
Sixty-nine-year-old Australian Graham Morant was found guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison on 2 November for persuading his wife to commit suicide. This case has set a precedent in Australia. His wife, Jennifer Morant, had been suffering from chronic...
![In Spain – two patients die after kidney transplants using organs contaminated with herpes](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/istock-187085702_6.jpg)
In Spain – two patients die after kidney transplants using organs contaminated with herpes
On 30 June 2018, a fifteen-year-old boy and a woman aged twenty-two underwent kidney transplant surgery at the Seville Hospital. The operation went well but their condition soon deteriorated. The young man died on 10 July and the young woman died the next day. ...
![“Can society authorise decriminalised euthanasia to offset health system deficiencies?”](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/13_fin_de_vie2_17.jpg)
“Can society authorise decriminalised euthanasia to offset health system deficiencies?”
"Faced with serious illness, we are all gripped with fear". Twenty-three physicians from the Grain de Sel group of the College of Physicians of the SFAP (French Society for Support and Palliative Care), have published an article in which they remind readers that...
![Down syndrome: “The first people on the list of endangered species”](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/campagne_2.png)
Down syndrome: “The first people on the list of endangered species”
"The first people on the list of endangered species". In Canada, during Down Syndrome week, from 1 to 7 November, the Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS) launched a media campaign to drive Down syndrome to the top of the endangered species list, like bears for...
![“Transhumanism matrix and reconstruction of human beings – the result of in-vitro fertilisation”](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/jean-marie_le_mene_3.jpg)
“Transhumanism matrix and reconstruction of human beings – the result of in-vitro fertilisation”
Behind medically assisted procreation, regardless of the outcome, stands a human being who can be manipulated, dissected, frozen and selected, and who is destined to respond to market solvency, laments judge and President of Fondation Jérôme-Lejeune. The recent...
![25% of Irish GPs to refuse to carry out abortions](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/07_objection_conscience_9.jpg)
25% of Irish GPs to refuse to carry out abortions
An online survey carried out by the ICGP[1] shows that a quarter of Irish doctors do not want to offer services linked to abortion and are reluctant to refer pregnant women to a colleague. Only 32% of the 3,500 GPs interviewed are currently ready and willing to...
![The Netherlands – first doctor sued for euthanasia of dementia patient](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/justice_-_freeimages_9.jpg)
The Netherlands – first doctor sued for euthanasia of dementia patient
For the first time since euthanasia was legalised in 2002, the public prosecutor has initiated "legal proceedings against a retirement home doctor for performing euthanasia on a 74-year-old female patient with dementia in 2016". The woman was "incapable of expressing...