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Film on Assisted Suicide: “Everything Went Well”?
On September 22, following a large marketing campaign, the film “Everything went well” based on Emmanuèle Bernheim’s 2013 book about helping her father die after suffering a stroke, was released in French cinemas. In interviews, the director François Ozon...
French Government Defaults on the Advanced Age and Autonomy Act
Successive promises for reforming the “Advanced Age and Autonomy Act”, have been interspersed with repeated postponements, but now the government has officially defaulted. Regrettably, the French Prime Minister, Jean Castex, did not mention the reform in his official...
Surrogacy Businesses Advertising their Illegal Trade in France Again
Although surrogacy is illegal in France, the trade show “Désir d’enfant” (Desire for a Child) reopened yet again this year in Paris on September 4th. Last year several associations filed legal suit against these international procreation businesses for openly pushing...
Preterm Babies: Hearing Mother’s Voice Alleviates their Pain
Recently, the journal Nature published the research from the University of Geneva, which scientifically demonstrates that hearing the mother’s voice significantly alleviated the pain preterm babies experienced when undergoing clinical procedures. Frequently, babies...
Militants Pushing for Surrogate Mothers in France while other countries back track
A media blitz has recently put surrogacy back in the headlines in France. First, without wasting any time after the new French bioethics law was voted to extend access to “ART for all”, the pro-surrogacy militants have now started advocating it through various media...
French Bioethics Law Referred to the Constitutional Council for “Scientism with Unlimited Boundaries”
The debate on the new bioethics bill didn’t end on June 29, 2021, when the French Parliament finally adopted the text. A referral has now been filed with the Constitutional Council by 80 parliamentarians from right and center parties (Republicans or “LR” and Union of...
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