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GMO babies: shorter life expectancy?

The two GMO babies born in China following He Jiankui’s experiments have a risk of early mortality; so concludes a study published on Monday in the journal Nature Medicine [1]. Last

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17 June 2019
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

A young woman in Montreal had an abortion and wanted to keep the child

A young Canadian woman went to have an abortion at the Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux (CIUSSS – integrated university centre for health and social services),

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17 June 2019
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Genome

GMO babies: ban maintained in the United States

Although a committee voted last month to lift the ban on genetic modification of embryos intended for pregnancy and birth, the American Congress has in the end decided to maintain

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17 June 2019
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In the Netherlands, Noa Pothoven was not euthanized – she died of hunger and thirst

After the announcement that a 17-year-old teenager was euthanized in the Netherlands on Thursday, denial bordering on relief soon circulated on the internet, and was very quickly relayed by the

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17 June 2019
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End of life

In a coma, she woke up just before she was switched off

The doctors considered that there was no possibility of improvement and her two children, aged 22 and 23, were confronted with the painful obligation of having to choose between “keeping

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17 June 2019
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Organ donation

Organ donation: the automatic assumption that follows from presumed consent is contrary to the very principle of donation

The Swiss bishops are opposed to presumed consent for organ donation. “We are not against organ donation […]. But we do not want it to be automatic,” said Bishop Felix

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17 June 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

The United Kingdom: towards laws facilitating surrogacy?

Au Royaume-Uni, la Law Commission, chargée de conseiller le gouvernement sur les réformes juridiques, vient de rédiger un projet de « Surrogacy pathway », ou solution de GPA. Les lois actuelles régissant

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17 June 2019
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

U.S.: Ban on abortion past eight weeks of pregnancy in Missouri

The Governor of the State of Missouri, Mike Parson, signed a law on Friday reducing the period during which abortion is decriminalized to eight weeks. Exceptions are provided for “when

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17 June 2019
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Bioethics News - News and insight on bioethics today

News and insight on bioethics today

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    • Conscientious objection
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    • End of life
    • Genome
    • GMO
    • MAP / surrogacy
    • Organ donation
    • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
    • Prenatal diagnosis
    • Transhumanism
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  • About & legals
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