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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Belgian MPs remove abortion from the penal code

In Belgium, following months of debate both in Parliament and civil society, a decision was taken yesterday to revise the 1990 Lallemand-Michielsens abortion law by 84 votes to 39 with

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22 October 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Barcelona: adoption of abandoned embryos

In Spain, when parents who have had access to medically assisted reproduction do not use their embryos, the law authorises reproduction centres to use them for research purposes, destroy them

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19 October 2018
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Faster access to abortion in Ireland

Last week, the Irish President enacted the law on the legalisation of abortion in Ireland following the referendum (see: Ireland: legalisation of abortion enacted). Abortion units should become operational in

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19 October 2018
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United States: paraplegic walks a few metres with electric stimulation

Having been paralysed in the legs from the age of four, a young man in the United States has just taken a few steps thanks to electrical stimulation. Following a

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19 October 2018
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

United States: aborted foetuses used to create chimeric mice

During the summer, the US prolife network revealed an FDA contract[1] in the United States to purchase tissue from aborted human foetuses to create “chimeric mice”, i.e. with a human

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19 October 2018
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Emmanuel Sapin: “Let’s stay true to the perspective of the treated human. Ignore the concept of the augmented human”

On the occasion of the publication of Decision 129 by the French National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE), Professor Emmanuel Sapin, Head of the Department of Paediatric Surgery at Dijon Children’s

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19 October 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

India: child trafficking following theft of sperm and egg samples

In Delhi, a child-trafficking gang linked to a surrogacy centre stole sperm and egg samples from an IFV centre. This centre then sold the samples on to childless couples either

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19 October 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Uterus transplants pose the same ethical problems as surrogacy

A researcher at Linköping University in Sweden[1] has studied the ethical aspects of uterine transplantation, and concludes that this procedure is not necessarily less complex than surrogacy from an ethical

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19 October 2018
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Bioethics News - News and insight on bioethics today

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    • Transhumanism
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