Euthanasia has recently been legalized in Spain and this Thursday the French Assembly is examining a bill to also regulate the deaths caused by sick people. The offensive is underway in many countries but despite this there are voices that continue to rise before an atrocious practice. They are religious people, but also agnostics or…
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed into law a bill on Friday that protects healthcare providers from discrimination if they refuse to provide medical services for religious or moral reasons. The bill, known as the Medical Ethics and Diversity Act, states that doctors and other healthcare workers have the right not to participate in a healthcare…
Despite international pressure, the Dominican Republic wants to remain a pro-life country and last week the Chamber of Deputies of the Caribbean country presented the bill to reform the Penal Code. In it the legislators have not contemplated the decriminalization of abortion under three possible assumptions as demanded by abortion groups supported by international lobbies.…
The House of Representatives ground to the project that sought to regulate euthanasia for adults in Colombia and settled the debate by denying the final report of the presentation. The initiative of the liberal representative Juan Fernando Reyes Kuri achieved its first triumph in Congress on the night of April 7. The promoters of euthanasia…
Por Nicolás Jouve, Catedrático emérito de Genética. Presidente de CiViCa, vocal del Comité de Bioética de España. Se acaba de publicar un trabajo en la revista Cell [1] en el que colabora el grupo que lidera el investigador español Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte en el Instituto de Estudios Biológicos de Salk, en Californía, de obtención de embriones quimera…
Además de producir órganos humano-animales, estas experiencias persiguen estudiar las primeras etapas del desarrollo embrionario, e incluso ser utilizadas para profundizar en el mayor conocimiento de algunas enfermedades y en su tratamiento. El pasado 15 de abril de este 2021, se publica en la revista Cell el primer trabajo en el que se describe la producción…
By Nicolás Jouve, Emeritus Professor of Genetics. President of CiViCa, member of the Bioethics Committee of Spain. (Cover image: A monkey-human blastocyst, an early stage of embryonic development Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology). A work has just been published in the journal Cell [1] in which the group led by the Spanish…
In addition to producing human-animal organs, these experiences seek to study the first stages of embryonic development, and even be used to deepen the knowledge of some diseases and their treatment. An article in the journal Cell (April 15, 2021), was the first work describing the chimera production human-ape (read HERE). The authors said that Monkey (Macaca fascicularis)…
Solo cinco años después de la ley Claeys-Leonetti del 2 de febrero de 2016, el debate sobre el fin de la vida se relanza en Francia con una ofensiva proeutanasia compuesta por cuatro proyectos de ley. En el Senado, el 11 de marzo de 2021 se rechazó el “encaminado a establecer el derecho a morir…
Only five years after the Claeys-Leonetti law of February 2, 2016, the debate on the end of life is relaunched in France with a pro-euthanasia offensive consisting of four bills. In the Senate, that «aimed at establishing the right to die with dignity» (n ° 131) carried by Senator Marie-Pierre de la Gontrie (PS) was…
