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![222 Canadian Federal MPs oppose genetic discrimination](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/pixabay_-_dna-1811955_2-1080x675.jpg)
222 Canadian Federal MPs oppose genetic discrimination
In Canada, a draft bill aimed at banning genetic discrimination in life assurance was adopted by 222 votes to 60. The draft law, drawn up on Parliament's initiative, "would ban companies - and life insurance companies in particular - from asking a consumer to...
![Terminal sedation: confusion in the Netherlands](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/18_fin_de_vie_0.jpg)
Terminal sedation: confusion in the Netherlands
The Health Care Disciplinary Council (RTG) at the Hague has just reprimanded a geriatric physician "who did not consider it appropriate to sedate a 102 year-old patient who requested it". The doctor acknowledged the fact that his patient had expressed the...
![Japan: dying alone, trivialisation of a disturbing phenomenon](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/textile-2072568_640.jpg)
Japan: dying alone, trivialisation of a disturbing phenomenon
In Japan, “the number of people who die alone is increasing": every year, 30,000 people die "alone, unnoticed" in this country, including 3,000 in Tokyo. They have"no family or friends at their bedside and no-one to worry about them if they have not been seen or heard...
![Criminal obstruction to abortion: Suppression of the crime of opinion but information control, the halftone decision of the Constitutional Council](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/istock-532936147_2.jpg)
Criminal obstruction to abortion: Suppression of the crime of opinion but information control, the halftone decision of the Constitutional Council
The French law extending criminal obstruction to digital media was validated by the European Constitutional Council last Thursday, and included two restriction; though the decision preserves freedom of expression, particularly on the internet, it maintains the right...
![Marie Stopes International validates abortions by telephone](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/iphone-500291_340.jpg)
Marie Stopes International validates abortions by telephone
The Daily Mail has led an enquiry into abortions carried out at the Marie Stopes International Clinics, the second largest abortion provider in the United Kingdom. It discovered that doctors at these clinics approve thousands of abortions without meeting the women. A...
![Australia: An end to anonymity for sperm donation](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/10_pma_don_sperme_22-566x675.jpg)
Australia: An end to anonymity for sperm donation
Sperm donors will no longer be anonymous in the State of Victoria in Australia. Children born through MAP (medically assisted procreation) following sperm donation will be able to obtain information about their biological parent(s). The change to the assisted...
![Germany authorises the purchase of lethal substances with a view to assisted suicide](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/04_fin_de_vie_suicide_assiste_25.jpg)
Germany authorises the purchase of lethal substances with a view to assisted suicide
In Germany, the purchase of potentially lethal substances is prohibited. However, on Thursday 2 March 2017, Leipzig Federal Administrative Court deemed that, in some extreme circumstances, people should be legally entitled to terminate their lives. The Court held in...
![CRISPR-CAS9: What does the general public think of genetic modifications?](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/pedestrians-918471_960_720.jpg)
CRISPR-CAS9: What does the general public think of genetic modifications?
Nouria Hernandez, geneticist and Chancellor of Lausanne University, believes that "the general public has not been adequately informed about the new options available with genetic tools", and "has not yet taken stock of all the opportunities offered by genetic...
![“She Decides” : Shortage of funds to finance abortion](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/pixabay_baby-1915402_640.jpg)
“She Decides” : Shortage of funds to finance abortion
On Thursday in Brussels, the "She Decides" Conference brought together representatives from over 45 governments and more than 400 delegates in an attempt to harvest funds to offset the effects of the decision taken by the American administration to reinstate the...
![British scientists attempt to create artificial murine embryos before focusing on humans](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/02_embryon_bis_16-1080x675.jpg)
British scientists attempt to create artificial murine embryos before focusing on humans
Cambridge University scientists led by Professor Zernicka-Goetz have succeeded "in creating a structure resembling a cultured mouse embryo" using murine stem cells and a 3D matrix on which the cells were developed. Their study is published in the Science journal. The...
![Guatemala: the “abortion ship” has been deported](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/pills-384846_640_0.jpg)
Guatemala: the “abortion ship” has been deported
Following the illegal entry of the "abortion ship" in Guatemalan territorial waters, [1], the Directorate General for Immigration suspended the authorisation for the ship's crew to stay in Guatemala and ordered its deportation. According to Ardani Sical,...
![Sickle cell anaemia: initial success for gene therapy](https://www.genethique.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/blood-75301_960_720-960x675.jpg)
Sickle cell anaemia: initial success for gene therapy
A young French patient suffering from sickle cell anaemia - a severe hereditary form of chronic anaemia - has been "successfully"treated with gene therapy. The treatment was carried out in October 2014 at the Necker Children's Hospital and Imagine Institute in Paris...