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[Movie] You shall not kill: conscientious objection between the lines
Released in cinemas last November 9th, the movie “You shall not kill” prevailed during the end of 2016. The movie relates the story of a conscientious objector who chose to serve his country by engaging in the second World Ward, without carrying a weapon. ...
European Parliament: make robots the equals of men?
Take responsibility away from human beings and hand it over to robots: because of the answers it provides and the solutions it recommends, the amended version of the Delvaux Report, adopted by the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee last Thursday, has made...
Surrogacy: No right to family life based on child purchase
Italy questions the first ruling concerning gestational surrogacy and wins the case. Decrypting for Gènéthique from Claire de la Hougue, Doctor of Law. On January 24th, the Grand Chamber of the European Court on Human rights adjudicated over the surrogacy case...
Launch of an iPS cell bank for research into sickle cell anaemia
Scientists at the Regenerative Medicine Center at Boston Medical Center and the University of Boston School of Medicine have created an iPS (induced pluripotent stem) cell research bank, which paves the way for research into sickle cell anaemia and its treatment. This...
Should genome analysis be carried out in newborn babies?
Nowadays, neonatal screening for a certain number of diseases using a blood sample taken from a newborn baby, is routinely performed at birth. Most of the time, the parents are not concerned and no disease is detected. However, using this same blood sample, it...
Surrogacy: ECHR condemns France once again
The plaintiffs, Karine et Fabrice Laborie, had recourse to a surrogate mother in Ukraine. Two children were born in November 2010 - Mateo and Manon. Their Ukraine birth certificates name the Laborie couple as the parents. In February 2012, a request for French birth...
Switzerland: bishops invest in palliative care
Swiss bishops have created a specialist palliative care service in Fribourg. They believe that "palliative care is witnessing strong growth in Switzerland and from now onwards will be an integral part of the health system". They have therefore decided to "set up a...
Iowa, a law enabling women who have had an abortion to sue the doctor in the event of emotional distress
In the State of Iowa, legislators have proposed a draft bill which would allow a woman who has undergone an abortion to sue the doctor who carried out the procedure if she subsequently experiences emotional stress at any time in her life. If approved, this would be...
Three-parent IVF: birth in Ukraine
A child was born on 5 January 2017 in Ukraine following three-parent IVF. This is the second birth involving genetic handling procedures following the birth of a little boy in Mexico in April 2016. The Nadiya Clinic in Kiev, which practised IVF, used the...
926,000 abortions in the United States in 2014 – the lowest level since 1975
The Guttmacher Institute has published its latest report on the number of abortions in the United States. This fell to its lowest level in 2014. The authors explained that, "For the first time since 1975, the number of abortions in the United States has fallen below...
“A robot designed solely as a companion is extremely dangerous”
Véronique Aubergé, a specialist in social robotics, works at the Grenoble 1 Information Technology Department. Fascinated with language, she is studying"the way in which we forge links with machines and the nature of those links". She wants "to establish what forges...
MAP in the United Kingdom: misleading press release on success rates
A study published in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) estimates that a certain number of MAP (medically assisted procreation) clinics in the United Kingdom publish success stories which are misleading for their patients. According to the study, the clinics...