by Alexis DUPORT | 2 May, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Last week, French media strongly echoed an American publication describing the development of premature lambs in an “artificial womb”. For Gènéthique, Jacques Suaudeau provided an analysis of the announcement, replacing it in its rightful context. He believes...
by Alexis DUPORT | 26 Apr, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
In Belgium, the Superior Health Council has just issued a notice concerning “generalized testing within the context of procreation”. Testing is suggested in order to identify recessive genetic diseases in healthy future parents. Reimbursed by social security,...
by Alexis DUPORT | 25 Apr, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
The ever-increasing knowledge we have of the living combined with technical advances enables researchers to make considerable progress in the care and therapies that are proposed to the sick. However, they come with ethically-questionable non-negligible risks. ...
by Alexis DUPORT | 22 Mar, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
The EU agrees on rejecting the decisions taken by Trump’s administration concerning aborting, but seems to have forgotten that the subject is outside its control and is stifling the voices that denounce abortion. The “Mexico City policy”, reestablished by Trump...
by Alexis DUPORT | 20 Mar, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
The French law extending criminal obstruction to digital media was validated by the European Constitutional Council last Thursday, and included two restriction; though the decision preserves freedom of expression, particularly on the internet, it maintains the right...
by Alexis DUPORT | 2 Mar, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Norma McCorvey, the American woman responsible for the decriminalisation of abortion in the United States in 1973, died on 18 February at the age of 69. She became a “keen opposer to abortion” after converting to Evangelical Protestantism and later to...