by Alexis DUPORT | 17 Jun, 2019 | Gènéthique informs you
After the announcement that a 17-year-old teenager was euthanized in the Netherlands on Thursday, denial bordering on relief soon circulated on the internet, and was very quickly relayed by the mainstream media. But Noa Pothoven, who had been traumatized by several...
by Alexis DUPORT | 29 Apr, 2019 | Gènéthique informs you
At the request of the French Court of Cassation, the ECHR issued an expected decision on the parentage of surrogate children on Wednesday: it states that recognition of this parentage is required in the “best interests of the child” but that this does not...
by Alexis DUPORT | 2 Apr, 2019 | Gènéthique informs you
Last week, Hugo Clément, a journalist from Konbini interviewed Anne Ratier to mark the publication of her book “I gifted death to my son”, published thirty years after the event. The philosopher and genethics expert Pascal Jacob explains the risks...
by Alexis DUPORT | 4 Feb, 2019 | Gènéthique informs you
A commission of inquiry[1] was set up at the French National Assembly on 19 December 2018 “to examine cases of sterilisation or forced abortion in Reunion Island in the 1960s and 1970s”. In the 1960s, on Reunion Island, several practitioners...
by Alexis DUPORT | 21 Jan, 2019 | Gènéthique informs you
In Portugal, Assembly of the Republic MPs have referred constitutionality issues concerning the law on surrogacy adopted in July 2016 to the Constitutional Court. In its responses on surrogacy, the Court considered that, as defined in Portuguese legislation as...
by Alexis DUPORT | 27 Nov, 2018 | Gènéthique informs you
Behind medically assisted procreation, regardless of the outcome, stands a human being who can be manipulated, dissected, frozen and selected, and who is destined to respond to market solvency, laments judge and President of Fondation Jérôme-Lejeune. The recent...