by Alexis DUPORT | 31 May, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
Information campaign Faced with the “lack” of oocytes available for the medically assisted procreation (MAP), the French Biomedicine Agency launched, at the end of May, in collaboration with health professionals and particularly with gynaecologists,...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
Head of the commission for bioethics of the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, Pierre-Olivier Arduin analyses the status conferred to artificial feeding by the end of life law currently in force. This “detail” could turn against Leonetti Law and threaten the precarious...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
Created at the initiative of Jérôme Lejeune Foundation and of the centre of research on cord blood of the University of Newcastle, the international consortium Novussanguis 1 was officially launched on last 14th May, at the School of Medicine, in the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
On last 9th April, the popular jury of the criminal court of Val d’Oise discharged Lydie Debaine, prosecuted for having killed his mentally and motor disabled daughter. On 14th May 2005, Mrs. Debaine administered to her 26-year-old daughter several tranquilizers...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Mar, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
The laws of bioethics voted in 1994 and revised in 2004 will be subject to new discussion in 2009. What are the current thoughts and the foreseeable evolutions? Framework law During the day of public hearings, organised the 29th November 2007 in the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Mar, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
The parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted, on the 16th of last April, with 102 votes against 69 and 14 abstentions, a resolution project called “access to safe and legal abortion”. This project is derived from an established report – from...