by Alexis DUPORT | 11 Oct, 2012 | Gènéthique informs you
According to the Judicial Information Centre (JIC), “the abortion by a woman of 32 who had been raped was suspended at the last minute on Tuesday in a hospital on Buenos Aires” by the decision of a magistrate, Miriam Rustan de Estrada. According to the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jul, 2012 | Gènéthique informs you
Seized on 16th March with a Priority Question of Constitutionality (PQC), the Constitutional Council declared in compliance with the Constitution the law into force related to anonymous childbirth. In France, between 600 and 700 women would be concerned each year....
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jul, 2012 | Gènéthique informs you
In France, the legislation establishes a prohibition principle of the research on the human embryo and the embryonic stem cells. It is only for this derogation that the Agency of Biomedicine (ABM) can authorize this type of research. But, on 10th May 2012, at the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Mar, 2012 | Gènéthique informs you
The journal of Medical Ethics takes over an article from two philosophers, experts in bioethics, Francesca Minerva1, and Alberto Giubilini2 “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?)”. Supporters of new-born baby homicide, the authors push the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Mar, 2012 | Gènéthique informs you
This is the question to which the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is obliged to answer in the case Kruzmane vs. Latvian. Chocked by the nature of this question, European associations specialized in disability mobilize to make their voices heard, those of...
by Alexis DUPORT | 29 Feb, 2012 | Gènéthique informs you
The bioethics actuality of March focused on Down syndrome. Indeed the 21st of March 2012 was defined as the “World Down syndrome Day”, recognized for the first time by UNO. In this particular context, Gènéthique proposes again to echo this controversial ethical...