by Alexis DUPORT | 27 Jun, 2018 | Gènéthique informs you
Launched in May 2018, a citizens’ consultation will enable all Europeans to voice their opinion on the direction in which they wish to steer the European Union. For the first time, the European Commission convened a citizens’ panel on 5 and 6 May...
by Alexis DUPORT | 27 Jun, 2018 | Gènéthique informs you
In Argentina, after a 22-hour session and a debate lasting nearly four months, the Chamber of Deputies voted in favour of a far-reaching bill, with unknown outlines, which would legalise abortion. A broad bill With 129 votes in favour, 125 against and...
by Alexis DUPORT | 18 Jun, 2018 | Gènéthique informs you
On the initiative of Xavier Breton, 40 MPs have filed a draft resolution “calling for a universal ban on surrogacy”. The signatories point out that “surrogacy leads to the unacceptable exploitation of women with children being treated as...
by Alexis DUPORT | 11 Jun, 2018 | Gènéthique informs you
The objective principle of dignity limits and supervises law. However, weakened by the legal evolutions that have let in so many inconsistencies, will this principle still be able to act as a safeguard? Last 20th April the “Espace éthique” of Ile de...
by Alexis DUPORT | 14 May, 2018 | Gènéthique informs you
Put forward by Senator Alain Milon on 5 February 2018, a draft bill aimed at authorising genetic analyses on deceased persons” could be examined in a public session on 6 June”[1]. According to the Senator, it’s a case of bringing scientific...