News - Announcements


May 2006

Portugal: adoption de la loi sur la fécondation médicalement assistée (31.5.2006)
20 ans apr?s le premier bébé éprouvette portugais, le Portugal a adopté le jeudi 25 mai 2006 sa première loi encadrant la pratique de la fécondation médicalement assistée. La loi a été votée principalement avec les voix de gauche et seulement 8 voix du Parti social-démocrate (PSD), principale formation de droite.

L'avortement et Amnesty International (23.5.2006)
Amnesty International (AI) a l'intention de décider d'ici 2007 si elle adoptera une nouvelle position en faveur de la "dépénalisation de l'avortement" et d'un accès sûr et légal à l'interruption de grossesse en cas de viol, d'inceste et de situations faisant courir des risques à la vie de la femme.

World Medical Association demands China stops using prisoners for organ transplants (22.5.2006)
The World Medical Association has called on China to cease immediately the practice of using prisoners as organ donors.

Thérapie cellulaire : partenariat Franco-Israélien (22.5.2006)
La semaine dernière, à l'occasion du lancement de la Fondation France-Israël, née en juillet dernier de la volonté de Jacques Chirac et Ariel Sharon, ont été présentées la création et l'implantation en Israël d'un laboratoire francais de l'Inserm (Insertech).

Homicide involontaire du foetus : une nouvelle affaire (18.5.2006)
Aujourd'hui, le tribunal correctionnel de Belley dans l'Ain, doit juger un automobiliste responsable d'un accident de voiture qui a provoqué, en 2004, un accouchement prématuré.

Britain: Surveillance society: The DNA files (15.5.2006)
The Independent on Sunday, reports on new research that raises concerns about the impact of retention of DNA from Juveniles on the police National DNA Database.

British House of Lords Blocks Assisted Suicide Bill (13.5.2006)
A controversial Bill which would have given terminally ill patients the right to end their lives was dispatched by the Lords this evening after an impassioned seven-hour debate which exposed the unbridgeable divide between religious and humanist leaders.

First baby in Britain designed cancer-free (13.5.2006)
A WOMAN is pregnant with Britain's first designer baby selected to prevent an inherited cancer, The Times can reveal.

New Fight Looms Over British Embryo Screening (9.5.2006)
Embryo screening should be extended to cover genes that may cause diseases but are not certain to do so, the regulatory body for fertility treatment has recommended.

Bishops to Fight Assisted Dying (7.5.2006)
THE Archbishop of Canterbury will lead the opposition in the House of Lords this week to a bill that aims to allow voluntary euthanasia.

A Couple To Create A Designer Baby As A "Saviour Sibling" (5.5.2006)
A couple have been given permission to use fertility treatment to create a "saviour sibling" for their seriously-ill 20-month-old daughter The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, has issued a licence to a clinic allowing it to use controversial testing techniques to create a "designer baby" who will be a donor for a very ill baby.

Court Backs Experimental Drugs for Dying Patients (3.5.2006)
Terminally ill patients have a constitutional right to obtain experimental drugs before the Food and Drug Administration has decided whether to approve them, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.