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MAP – Surrogacy

Surrogacy: “A woman cannot be used as a means of reproduction”

“Faced with these undeniable advances in managing infertility, potential problems have arisen from their use”. During a debate organised by the European Lawyers’ Union (UAE) in Marseille, Gérard Abitbol –

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13 May 2019
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End of life

The Netherlands: euthanasia down by 7% in 2018. A real decrease?

The 2018 official euthanasia figures in the Netherlands are down by 7% for the first time since 2003. Given the size of the elderly population, this is an astonishing trend.

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13 May 2019
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Organ donation

Japan: victims of forced sterilization will receive compensation

Under the new law passed today, the thousands of surviving victims of Japan’s forced sterilization program from 1948 to 1996 will each receive 3.2 million yen ($28,700).   About twenty

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6 May 2019
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End of life

Woman miraculously wakes up after 27 years in a coma

“ The reason I shared her story is to tell people not to lose hope on their loved ones. Do not consider them dead when they are in such a state”.

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6 May 2019
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End of life

New Zealand: “If the bill on end-of-life ‘choices’ had been passed four years ago, I would be dead”

Quadriplegic since the age of 17, a young woman explains: “for most of my life, I have been for assisted suicide.”  But during the debates on a bill to legalize

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6 May 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

Four 3-parent IVF clinics pending in the US: scientists push for approval

Researchers at Columbia University in New York say they “have created embryos” for four patients and are ready to implant them. However, “they face a legal impasse”. The law prohibits the

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6 May 2019
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Embryo research and alternatives

Japan: a positive first global clinical trial with iPS

In Japan, the five patients with age-related macular degeneration, who received the first induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) transplant in March 2017, “have all endured the surgery well“. The announcement

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6 May 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

Women in their forties exploited by the UK’s reproductive business

Older women in the United Kingdom are reportedly being exploited by in-vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics “trading on hope“. These conclusions by the fertility observatory at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology

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6 May 2019
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Bioethics News - News and insight on bioethics today

News and insight on bioethics today

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    • Cloning
    • Conscientious objection
    • Embryo research and alternatives
    • 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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