by Alexis DUPORT | 18 Jun, 2018 | Gènéthique informs you
On the initiative of Xavier Breton, 40 MPs have filed a draft resolution “calling for a universal ban on surrogacy”. The signatories point out that “surrogacy leads to the unacceptable exploitation of women with children being treated as...
by Alexis DUPORT | 11 Jun, 2018 | Gènéthique informs you
The objective principle of dignity limits and supervises law. However, weakened by the legal evolutions that have let in so many inconsistencies, will this principle still be able to act as a safeguard? Last 20th April the “Espace éthique” of Ile de...
by Alexis DUPORT | 14 May, 2018 | Gènéthique informs you
Put forward by Senator Alain Milon on 5 February 2018, a draft bill aimed at authorising genetic analyses on deceased persons” could be examined in a public session on 6 June”[1]. According to the Senator, it’s a case of bringing scientific...
by Alexis DUPORT | 9 May, 2018 | Gènéthique informs you
A study carried out in California has shown that there are more obstetrical and perinatal complications in the case of surrogacy by IVF than with natural pregnancy. All of the surrogate mothers taking part in this study had initially conceived at least one child...
by Alexis DUPORT | 9 May, 2018 | Gènéthique informs you
Two days before the March for Life, the question of abortion and the civil code is still being raised: why? Carine Brochier from the European Institute of Bioethics (EIB) explains with Gènéthique. In the lead-up to the March for Life, held in Brussels at 3 p.m....
by Alexis DUPORT | 26 Apr, 2018 | Gènéthique informs you
Between 2012 and 2016, a study was conducted in the United States on women who had changed their minds about having an abortion after taking mifepristone (RU-486), and before taking misoprostol, which is administered 24 to 48 hours later under FDA regulations[1]....