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MAP – Surrogacy

The United Arab Emirates authorizes freezing of human embryos

A law approved yesterday by the United Arab Emirates’ Federal National Council has just authorized married couples to freeze their embryos during a MAR process. The legislators were careful to

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29 April 2019
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Organ donation

Pig brains restarted four hours after death: should brain death be redefined?

“The brain’s ability to revive its cells has been underestimated,” said Nenad Sestan, a researcher at Yale University in the USA. He is one of the authors of a study

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29 April 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

Risk of incest: Queensland, Australia: 48 children from the same sperm donor

Serial sperm donors pose a real “social risk” for the children they father. In Brisbane, Australia, a couple of women reignited the debate after accidentally discovering that the father of

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29 April 2019
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End of life

Euthanasia in Quebec: 10 times more deaths than expected, but not still enough for the government

In Quebec, five years after the adoption of the law introducing medically assisted suicide in 2014, the time has come for initial assessments: a Report on the situation of end-of-life

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29 April 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

Giving birth to her grand-daughter: intra-family surrogacy “deprives the child of a clear genealogy”

The birth announcement of a surrogate baby girl, whose surrogate mother is her grandmother and her aunt the oocyte donor, has provoked many reactions. This birth was to satisfy the

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29 April 2019
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End of life

California: Two-thirds of hospitals refuse to apply the law authorizing physician-assisted suicide

In California, physician-assisted suicide has been allowed for three years, but many hospitals and doctors refuse to offer it to their patients. “We had heard anecdotally and from reports that

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29 April 2019
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Organ donation

Robotic uterine transplantation: birth in Sweden

The first baby born after a robotic uterine transplant was born in Sweden on Monday 8 April (see Robot-assisted uterine transplants: first pregnancy in Sweden). The baby boy was born

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29 April 2019
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Surrogacy: the ECHR does not advocate transcribing birth certificates

At the request of the French Court of Cassation, the ECHR issued an expected decision on the parentage of surrogate children on Wednesday: it states that recognition of this parentage

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29 April 2019
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Bioethics News - News and insight on bioethics today

News and insight on bioethics today

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    • Abortion
    • Bioethics law
    • Cloning
    • Conscientious objection
    • Embryo research and alternatives
    • End of life
    • Genome
    • GMO
    • MAP / surrogacy
    • Organ donation
    • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
    • Prenatal diagnosis
    • Transhumanism
  • Contact
  • About & legals
  • Cookie policy (EU)
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