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Embryo research and alternatives

Chinese team produces mouse pups from two female mice

On Thursday, a team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced the successful creation of offspring from two female mice using embryo stem cells “and targeted genome editing”.

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26 October 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Legalising medically assisted reproduction for all women would lead to a paternity desert

At a time when “medically assisted reproduction for all women” is hotly debated, child psychiatrists and psychoanalysts Christian Flavigny and Michèle Fontanon-Missenard reiterate, in an opinion piece, the importance of

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22 October 2018
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Decision No. 129 of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE): Monsignor Aupetit responds

“The real question is, what is human dignity? “ Monsignor Aupetit, Archbishop of Paris, has “predictably” welcomed the decision of the CCNE (see Decision of the National Consultative Ethics Committee: to

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22 October 2018
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Down syndrome: an additional 22 million dollars released for research in the US

In the US, the National Institute of Health (NIH) has just granted additional funding to the tune of 22.2 million dollars to boost research into Down syndrome, linking basic and

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22 October 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Council of State decision: Reserving medically assisted reproduction for heterosexual couples is not deemed discriminatory

Faced this summer with a priority issue of constitutionality, the French Council of State has just made a decision that “voids one of the arguments most often put forward by

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22 October 2018
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Conscientious objection

Abortion conscience clause? To revoke it would be unconstitutional

Whilst Senator Laurence Rossignol calls for suppression of the conscience clause claimed by health professionals refusing to carry out abortions (see Laurence Rossignol in favour of revoking conscience clause for

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22 October 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Divorced father says that his son is “missing a mother”

Jérôme, 46, is divorced and father to seven-year-old Arsène. He has “tried to be both mother and father to his son” but “at times he feels that his child is

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22 October 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

€900 compensation for purely unselfish egg donation?

Egg donors are paid too much in the Netherlands with up to €900 compensation per “donation”. Ethicists at University Medical Centre Utrecht are afraid that women are being forced “to

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22 October 2018
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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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