by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 26 Feb, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
John Coates, a fertility doctor in Vermont, in the United States, is accused of using his own sperm to fertilise one of his patients’ eggs in the 1970s. Following a genetic test conducted on Ancestry.com, which revealed the identity of her biological father, the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 26 Feb, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On 6 February, in the US state of Utah, a Senate committee approved a bill banning abortions following positive diagnosis of Down syndrome. This legislation had already been discussed in 2018(Utah: a law under consideration to prohibit abortions based on the diagnosis...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 26 Feb, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Her excruciating migraines disappeared overnight when she stopped taking the pill. Yet Kelsie Bryson took eight years to make the connection between the pill and her symptoms. “I would experience numbness in the right side of my body — including in my mouth,...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 26 Feb, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt are accused of violating the privacy of the fourteen “abortion rights workers” who appear in their videos published in 2015 (see American Family Planning: Partial birth abortions, lifting of veils on...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 26 Feb, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
A woman has undergone in-utero spina bifida surgery during the 24th week of pregnancy. Her daughter is due to be born in April. This is one of the first procedures of its kind to be performed in the United Kingdom by NHS surgeons. They were trained in Belgium, where...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 26 Feb, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Yesterday, the Irish government agreed to introduce a bill allowing both women in a lesbian couple to appear on the birth certificate of a baby conceived through sperm donation. According to current legislation, only the woman who carries the child and gives birth is...