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End of life

Alfie: judge approves end-of-life plan against parents’ wishes

Alfie: judge approves end-of-life plan against parents’ wishes The English High Court of Justice has approved an end-of-life care plan for Alfie[1]. The 23-month-old boy is in a “semi-vegetative” state

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4 May 2018
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End of life

2017 assisted suicide rate up by 32.5% in French-speaking Switzerland

Despite a survey which shows that 82% of Swiss nationals think about their end of life at some point or other, and 94% acknowledge “the relevance of palliative care” (see

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4 May 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Higher risk of cardiovascular disease in children born through medically assisted reproduction?

Early studies on children born through assisted reproduction have shown that these children are more at-risk of cardiovascular issues, prematurity (twice as high as in natural pregnancy) and lower birth

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26 April 2018
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Transhumanism

For Jacques Testart, transhumanism is a new form of eugenics

“Modernity has popularized the right to a child and is now engendering the right to a child of a certain quality.” Jacques Testart, the author of a new book entitled

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26 April 2018
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Stopping medical abortion with progesterone is effective and safe for the child

Between 2012 and 2016, a study was conducted in the United States on women who had changed their minds about having an abortion after taking mifepristone (RU-486), and before taking

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26 April 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Belgium – cryopreservation reimbursed and extended to new patients

The freezing of eggs and sperm (cryopreservation) has been fully reimbursed since last year for cancer patients who undergo heavy treatment likely to affect their fertility.   Public Health Minister,

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17 April 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Could surrogate mothers be paid in Canada?

In Canada, it is illegal to pay a surrogate mother or to purchase human gametes, be it sperm or eggs. This ban is enshrined in the 2004 law on medically

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17 April 2018
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Organ donation

Organ donation is not part of Chinese culture

“A deceased person’s body should remain intact” according to “Chinese traditions and culture”. This state of mind makes organ donation virtually impossible in China. For the same reasons, medical students

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17 April 2018
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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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