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Status of the human body
Access to origins: Belgian law deems gamete donor anonymity unconstitutional
Author / Source : EIB Published on : Thematic : Status of the human body News Temps de lecture : 2 min.
After the birth of two daughters conceived through artificial reproduction with a gamete donor, a woman asked the fertilization center for access to the donor's identifying and non-identifying information, without any medical reason. When UZ Brussel refused, the mother and one of her daughters turned to the Brussels Court of First Instance. The 2007 law “relating to medically assisted procreation and the destination of supernumerary embryos and gametes” stipulates that a...
Cryopreservation of embryos: Study highlights ethical issues involved in their preservation and inevitable destruction
Author / Source : EIB Published on : Thematic : Status of the human body News Temps de lecture : 2 min.
According to a study published last June, the number of human embryos cryopreserved following artificial reproduction has reached a record level in the UK. Published in The New Bioethics, the study analysed data provided by the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) between 1991 and 2019. The figures show that at least 130,000 stored embryos have been destroyed in the UK since 1991. This situation, already problematic in itself, is particularly so in the UK, where legislation...
End of puberty blockers for minors: England reviews its treatment of gender dysphoria
Author / Source : IEB Published on : Thematic : Status of the human body News Temps de lecture : 2 min.
In 2021-2022, there were more than 5,000 referrals to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) run by Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (compared with 250 in 2011-2012). In response to this increase in cases, the NHS has asked Dr Hilary Cass, former President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, to conduct an independent review of gender services for minors. In 2022, an interim report from this study warned of the dangers of systematically prescribing puberty...
Gender reassignment: more and more Belgian teenagers are being prescribed puberty blockers
Author / Source : IEB Published on : Thematic : Status of the human body News Temps de lecture : 1 min.
More and more teenagers in Belgium are taking puberty blockers to halt the sexual development of their bodies during adolescence. In just three years, 60% more of them have been prescribed these hormone treatments by their doctors, in an attempt to relieve the unease they feel about their biological sex. They are 684 young people between the ages of 9 and 17 in 2022, compared with 432 in 2019, reveals a survey carried out by the De Morgen (24/01/2024). Half of them are being treated at the...
From induced death to useful death: increasing organ donation after euthanasia in Quebec
Author / Source : EIB Published on : Thematic : Status of the human body News Temps de lecture : 1 min.
This development raises questions about the confusion that is developing around these two practices, which have completely different, if not irreconcilable, moral values. Little by little, the altruism of organ donation ends up masking the serious attack on the life and dignity of the person being euthanised. Far from being alarmed by this utilitarian shift, Dr Matthew Weiss, medical director of organ donation at Transplant Québec and author of the study, would like to increase...