Study suggests that having children impairs the cognitive health of parents On 22 May, Spanish newspaper Levante[1] reported a study conducted by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Paris-Dauphine University. The study, published in the scientific journal Demography[2], [...]
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 [...]
Updated 9/14/2021 The term ageism was coined in the English language in 1969, and is defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as “unfair treatment of people who are becoming old or who are old”. From a bioethical point of view, this definition is an excellent interpretation of ageism – it is [...]
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 [...]
Last November, we published an article about China’s demographic trend entitled China’s demographic crisis out of control. A giant with feet of clay, reporting that it is one of the countries with fewest births in the world. In this respect, an [...]
“Missing female births, driven by selective abortion of female fetuses, continue to increase across the states…” The global demographic trend is an issue of great bioethical interest. As a result of medical and cultural factors, many countries are not repopulating [...]
More miscarriage units are needed in hospitals and couples and the general public need to be informed A recent series from The Lancet (March 26) addresses the medical and economical aspects of miscarriage ( read the series of 3 papers [...]
Biological father responsibility required by law is a trend in American legislation. Under a Utah (USA) law that appears to be the first of its kind, the father of a child, in any case, must pay half of a woman’s [...]
More studies are needed about COVID-19 and pregnancy. Introduction One question that many couples ask is whether vaccination against COVID-19 could in any way affect a woman and her embryos or fetuses if she becomes or is pregnant. Because of [...]
Many studies have examined the association between parental age and medical risks in offspring (read “Is it time to establish age restrictions in ART-IVF?, a relevant bioethical issue that also focuses on the access of older patients to reproductive technologies), [...]
It is known that several features of life in postmodern society appear to empower individualism. One social effect is the fact that individual homes and single mother or father households have been on the increase over the last few decades [...]
Appeals court judge Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed by the American Senate on Monday by 52 to 48 votes, elevating the fifth woman to the Supreme Court in its 231-year history. The American Constitution grants the Supreme Court a decisive [...]
