by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 11 Jun, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Conscientious objection
Pope Francis today addressed some 300 members of the Italian Catholic Association of Healthcare Workers at the Vatican. The Holy Father recalled that any “medical intervention on human beings” must first be evaluated in terms of respect for “human...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 11 Jun, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
“Vincent is fine. Vincent is not at the end of his life”, said his mother Viviane after leaving the hospital on Tuesday once his nutrition and hydration had resumed. “Vincent needs only to drink, eat and be loved”. He is not “the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 11 Jun, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Babies born in Hong Kong before the age of twenty-four weeks are treated as “medical waste”: they are “incinerated and then thrown away as landfill”. An eye-witness account revealed in the press has “shocked Hong Kong society”...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 11 Jun, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
As the trend towards late motherhood continues, more and more women are considering oocyte freezing as insurance against age-related infertility. In the United Kingdom, figures published by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) confirm that oocyte...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 11 Jun, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
“The Lambert case is not about the end-of-life debate but rather the place of disabled people in our societies”. It raises an issue to which Nazi Germany found a radical response by exterminating more than 200,000 disabled people between 1936 and 1945:...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 11 Jun, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Two babies were born following uterine transplants at Tübingen University Hospital in Germany: one in March and the other in May. Both women were suffering from Müllerian agenesis, a rare malformation (1/4,500) that had caused them to be born without a uterus and...
