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Jacques Testart: “In the future, children will be conceived in a laboratory and sex will just be for pleasure”
By creating mice using gametes obtained from somatic cells removed from the tail of adult mice (see “Reproducing mice without using eggs and Reproducing mice in eggs: an announcement to be tempered”), Japanese scientists have just broken an age-old premise put...
“She Decides”: Obianuju Ekeocha asks the West for risk-free births as opposed to risk-free abortions
Following the reinstatement of the Mexico Policy by the United Nations, financing for organisations providing abortions in foreign countries, such as the International Family Planning Federation, Marie Stopes International and the United Nations Population Fund...
Medically assisted dying in Ontario: doctors pull out
In Ontario, "medically assisted dying" has been practised legally for eight months, but is causing discomfort amongst doctors. Twenty-four of them have asked for their names to be removed from the list of professionals practising euthanasia[1]. "About thirty others...
The “abortion ship” will bypass Guatemalan legislation
The Dutch NGO "Women on Waves" is repeating its "abortion ship" strategy, heading for Guatemala on this occasion. Abortion is authorised in Guatemala if the mother's life is in jeopardy. The NGO wants to offer "free services to women wishing to terminate an unwanted...
Selling organs – the most brutal solution for Syrian refugees in Turkey
German state television has carried out an investigation into organ trafficking - a "worrying situation", especially on the Turkish border. Journalists met Ahmed, who posted an announcement on social networking sites: "I'm Syrian, living in Turkey. I would like to...
A little boy born with a rare spina bifida complication defies expert predictions
When Noah Wall was born, doctors thought that he would probably not survive and even if he did, he would have a serious physical disability. The child had developed a rare spina bifida complication in the womb. His head became filled with fluid that crushed the base...
United States: death of “Jane Roe”
Norma McCorvey, the American woman responsible for the decriminalisation of abortion in the United States in 1973, died on 18 February at the age of 69. She became a "keen opposer to abortion" after converting to Evangelical Protestantism and later to Catholicism....
Canada: Increase in overdose-related deaths and organ donation
According to the Health Authorities in British Columbia (Canada), "more organs are available for transplantation and some of these organs come from victims of drug overdose". A state of emergency was declared in this region ten months ago given the number...
The subversive power of disability, facing an everyday more active birth selection
Technical advances do not always come with ethical ones… Danielle Moyse, philosopher and expert for Gènéthique, has noticed that with the arrival of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), eugenic techniques are getting more serious, while, on the other hand, disabled...
Robots at the age of transhumanism
At a time when Europe is questioning the status given to robots, Emmanuel Brochier, professor of philosophy at the IPC in Paris, answers Gènéthique’s questions concerning relations between men and robots. Gènéthique: Paris took on an orchestra conductor...
CRISPR: The international ethics committee surrenders
Since April 2015, CRISPR has been shaking the scientific community. This new tool that enables one to “edit the genome” opens the way to new gene therapy treatments, but also transhumanism. Brought together for several summits since 2015, international experts...
Delvaux report adopted: the European Parliament enters into transhumanist fiction
Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted the Delvaux report by 313 votes in favour, 285 against and 20 abstentions. Assembly Members therefore voted "for the creation of a 'legal identity' for robots and human augmentation or enhancement". Only reference to the...