In the context of an as yet experimental protocol, a second uterus graft has just been accomplished in France at the Foch hospital in Suresnes.
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French Gamete Donations No Longer Anonymous; Unresolved Issues for ART with Third Party Donors
On September 1, 2022, the 2021 French Bioethics law comes into force, meaning that gamete donations will no longer be anonymous. Children born of assisted procreation (IVF or insemination) with a third-party donor, will be able, when they reach age 18, to request the removal of anonymity of the donor, man or women, who gave his gamete and who is at the origin of their life.
Human Embryo Selection : The Alarming Rise of Complex Genetic Testing
A recent editorial in the journal Nature has highlighted the alarming rise of complex genetic testing for selecting human embryos in vitro. The emergence of companies offering prospective parents tests based on a "polygenic risk embryo score" prior to in...
California: Painful Imbroglio After Embryos get Switched
A California couple recently filed suit against the IVF clinic for switching their embryo for another prior to implantation. Here is what this most affected family went through. According to the New York Times, the clinic switched their embryo with another couple’s...
Bioethics: What Does “ROPA” Conceal?
An amendment to legalize “ROPA” was introduced at the French National Assembly by deputy and spokesman Jean-Louis Touraine (from President Macron’s centrist and liberal party “LREM”: the Republic Moving Forward). Although the government has thus far been opposed to...
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[Press Release]: Understanding Bioethics Ethical and Humanistic Implications of France’s New Bioethics Bill
The French Parliamentary Committee started the first readings of the new bioethics law on September 10, prior to the public sessions scheduled to be held on September 24th.For this event, Alliance VITA has published an Understanding Bioethics (n ° 49) to...