by Alexis DUPORT | 23 Oct, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
These past months, two publications have shared a discovery in the field of stem cells: the possibility to extract and conserve, in an undifferentiated state, embryonic totipotent stem cells, while the ones currently used in research are pluripotent. The first study,...
by Alexis DUPORT | 23 Oct, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Un cri secret d’enfant [1]. In a poignant book, Anne Schaub denounces the serious consequences surrogacy may have on the behaviour and identity building of a person. Having observed and been a witness of very early relationships between children and parents for...
by Alexis DUPORT | 19 Oct, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a recommendation concerning “the recourse to new genetic technologies in human beings”. The parliamentary Assembly underlined the fact that “recent discoveries in terms of human...
by Alexis DUPORT | 10 Oct, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Brother René Stockman, Superior General of the Brothers of Charity met with the Vatican’s competent authorities “about the current decision concerning the practice of euthanasia in the establishments of the Brothers of Charity in Belgium”. The Belgian Brothers...
by Alexis DUPORT | 4 Oct, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
During the European seminar held in Brussels at the COMECE[1] last 22nd June on “Preventing abortion in Europe”, Cherline Louissaint, lawyer, backed by a number of studies on the subject, went over the medical risks incurred by women who abort. Abortion does not come...
by Alexis DUPORT | 26 Sep, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
On 12th September last, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on violence against women. The report, voted by an overwhelming majority of the Members of Parliament, classifies anti-abortion laws as violence against women and girls. From today, the text...
