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  • France intends to ban sexual reorientation therapies

    February 2nd, 2022Bioethics, BIOETHICS NEWS, Gender Ideology, Homosexuality, NEWS and VIEWS

    The French National Assembly has unanimously approved (142 votes in favor and none against), a law that prohibits sexual “reorientation therapies” that try to impose heterosexuality on lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals. In addition, it announces sanctions of up to [...]

  • What are the bioethical issues raised by the new law on assisted reproduction in France?

    October 14th, 2021Assisted reproduction and IVF, Bioethics, BIOETHICS NEWS, Gender Ideology, Homosexuality, Marriage and Family, SPECIAL REPORTS

    Macron‘s legal and bioethics reform an advance or a setback? A new law recently passed in France allows lesbians and single women to access in vitro fertilization treatment, specifying that both the biological mother and her lesbian partner will be [...]

  • Switzerland: Same-sex couples now have the status of a married family

    September 7th, 2021Bioethics, BIOETHICS NEWS, BRIEF NEWS, Homosexuality, Marriage and Family

    Same-sex couples will have the same rights of married people in Switzerland. The Swiss parliament and the federal council of government approved the measure “Marriage for all”, equating same-sex couples (homosexual unions) with established families. Switzerland had already authorized civil [...]

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    France approves IVF for lesbians to be subsidized

    July 8th, 2021Assisted reproduction and IVF, Bioethics, BIOETHICS NEWS, Gender Ideology, Homosexuality, NEWS and VIEWS

    French President Emanuel Macron has called for public consultation, read HERE. to make changes to the current French legislation that have bioethical implications. One of the issues with more public concerns was to facilitate IVF to lesbian women. Lesbian IVF [...]

  • Gestational surrogacy global development. Who benefits? Bioethical considerations

    February 3rd, 2021Assisted reproduction and IVF, Homosexuality, Human embryos, SPECIAL REPORTS, Surrogate motherhood

    The debate over the issue of gestational surrogacy  (a euphemistic term that attempts to disguise the reality of a woman who offers to carry a pregnancy in exchange for money) is on in the global political and social arena (see [...]

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    Relaxation of blood donation requirements for gay blood donors

    December 22nd, 2020Bioethics, BIOETHICS NEWS, Homosexuality, NEWS and VIEWS

    Current requirements for all gay blood donors to abstain from sex for three months before donating blood overruled with new measures in England and New Zeland. A recent article published in the British newspaper The Guardian, entitled “Blood donor rules to [...]

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    Couple of women share their womb to carry the child

    February 18th, 2020Assisted reproduction and IVF, Bioethics, BIOETHICS NEWS, Homosexuality, NEWS and VIEWS

    Otis was born on 30 September in a hospital in Essex (England) after passing through the womb of his two mothers, a lesbian couple who have been the first to test a pioneering technique called “shared motherhood “. In female [...]

  • A review of the relationship between same sex attraction and genetics: new findings for an old dilemma

    September 27th, 2019Bioethics, BIOETHICS NEWS, Genetics and Genomics, Homosexuality, SPECIAL REPORTS, Transsexuality

    Introduction Much has been written about the factors that trigger same-sex attraction and homosexual behavior. The possible existence of genetic determinants that are detectable in individuals with homosexual orientation has been the subject of study on many occasions, for very [...]

  • Sex education guide for teachers and parents with clear ideas on right sexual orientation and gender theory imposed in schools without scientific basis

    Publication of a guide for parents to educate their children against gender ideology

    July 8th, 2019Bioethics, BIOETHICS NEWS, Gender Ideology, Homosexuality, Marriage and Family, SPECIAL REPORTS, Transsexuality

    On 10 June this year, the Congregation for Catholic Education published a document entitled “Male and Female He Created Them” ( read HERE entire document), which sets out the Congregation’s thoughts on Gender Ideology, and especially how this information can [...]

  • Aysmal unequal results and means are the result of the recent HIV/AIDS epidemic brief review we published.

    HIV/AIDS epidemic. Brief review

    April 25th, 2019AIDS. HIV. Other viral infections, Bioethics, Homosexuality, NEWS and VIEWS

    The aim of the 90-90-90 targets against HIV established by UNAIDS, the United Nations agency especially dedicated to the fight against HIV infection and AIDS, is that there are less than 90% of HIV-positive patients who are undiagnosed, untreated and [...]

  • The flame of respect for life has been successfully passed on and is still burning strong in France. Paris manifestation pro life take to the streets

    Paris March for Life take to the streets in Paris – Video

    January 24th, 2019Abortion, Assisted reproduction and IVF, Bioethics, BIOETHICS NEWS, Homosexuality, Human embryos, Human Rights, NEWS and VIEWS

    Thousands of protesters – 50.000 people from all France – walked through upscale neighborhoods of the country’s capital, ending the March at the Trocadero, which overlooks the Seine opposite the Eiffel Tower. Macron revision of French’s bioethics laws makes that 2019 [...]

  • Britsh Territory of Bermuda states that marriage is only between a man and a woman.and same sex couples civil status will be a "domestic partnership"

    Bermuda changes “same sex marriage” for “domestic partnership”

    December 13th, 2017BIOETHICS NEWS, Homosexuality, Marriage and Family, NEWS and VIEWS

    Bermuda maintains the traditional definition of marriage in a new law of the House of Assembly The British Overseas Territory of Bermuda is to become the world’s first territory to restore the traditional definition of marriage just six months after [...]

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