by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Eleven Cambodian surrogate mothers arrested in November (see Surrogacy in Cambodia: fifteen new arrests in Phnom Penh) were released on bail last month “in return for promising not to sell their child”. According to Chou Bun Eng, vice-president of the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 28 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On Wednesday, the Paris Administrative Court rejected the urgent appeal of Vincent Lambert’s parents for a suspension of the procedure decided by Vincent’s doctor to stop their son’s care. The parents invoked “the serious and manifestly unlawful...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 20 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
The Committee on Public Health in the lower chamber of Chile’s congress approved a bill that would allow 14-year-olds to obtain the means for medically-assisted suicide. This move, approved in extremis by a vote of 7 to 6, had been debated for several weeks by the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 20 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
An Ohio appeals court upheld on Thursday a previous ruling that frozen embryos are not people. This decision was based on an Ohio law that states that an embryo is considered a person only if it can survive outside the womb. The decision was taken following...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 20 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
A new survey by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York revealed a “basic gap in fertility knowledge for many US women”. The study, which was conducted with 1,000 American women ages 20 to 45, found that only 20% of women know that they are only fertile...