by Alexis DUPORT | 31 May, 2013 | Gènéthique informs you
In less than one month Down syndrome has become a relentless subject. After the opinion 120 of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE) giving its blessing to the new prenatal diagnosis (PND) test for Down syndrome, foetuses carriers of this pathology...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2013 | Gènéthique informs you
On May 2013, the second section of the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) rendered a judgment (Alda Gross vs. Switzerland) participating in establishing an individual right to assisted suicide which would derived from the right to private life (article 8 of the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2013 | Gènéthique informs you
G: Cell (2) published the “discovery” from American scientists affirming to have succeeded in creating embryonic stem cells by therapeutic cloning. Can you enlighten us on this announcement, from a scientific and ethic point of view? A.B: These researchers...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Mar, 2013 | Gènéthique informs you
On the bioethics challenges, the news, the point of view of decision makers, institutional investors and policy makers reveal a libertarian thought and the cult of the transgression. In France, 2013 started off very strongly: reimbursement at 100% for the voluntary...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2013 | Gènéthique informs you
The same day of the examination by the National Assembly of the bill authorizing the research on human embryonic stem cells, Jean-Marie Le Méné, chairman of Fondation Lejeune, published a column in La Croix (1), reported below. Contrary to what ones thinks, the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2013 | Gènéthique informs you
On 28th March MPs will debate about the bill lifting the ban on the research on the human embryo. But this bill includes a legal and ethical revolution without scientific basis. For the citizens who have been deprived of a debate on the question, here are the ten main...