The undersigned organizations and individuals support the strong existing international consensus against human genetic modification (HGM*). We wish to express our great concern and opposition to those scientific and other institutions currently seeking to legalize HGM. HGM is medically unnecessary. Carrying it out is an act of extreme scientific irresponsibility, likely to have enormously detrimental…
MP Kees van der Staaij of the Reformed SGP party in the Netherlands argues for this in parliamentary questions to the Minister of Legal Protection, Franc Weerwind. Van der Staaij’s questions come in response to the Casablanca Declaration. Experts worldwide presented a statement in Casablanca, Morocco, calling on governments to ban surrogacy and end the practice. Van der…
One hundred experts from 75 countries have signed a declaration demanding the abolition of surrogate motherhood (in the declaration the term “surrogate pregnancy” is used) because it offends human dignity and commodifies women and children. On March 3, a conference took place in Casablanca to launch the declaration. The organizers chose Morocco because it completely…
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Read more. La Corte Costituzionale ha respinto la richiesta della “madre gestazionale” reclutata in Canada da una coppia di uomini italiani per avere un figlio di intervenire in giudizio in loro sostegno Può una madre surrogata costituirsi nel giudizio in Consulta, a sostegno di coloro che l’hanno pagata per ottenere un bimbo? La risposta della…
Read more. Lithuania has declared the business of surrogacy contrary to the dignity of women and children.While in some countries a revision of the laws is demanded to accept surrogacy, and while the different jurisdictions increasingly accept the fait accompli when carried out abroad, Lithuania rebels against this practice and declares it radically contrary to dignity The Lithuanian Parliament, called…
Read more. We, the Catholic bishops of Ukraine, have already drawn the attention of the competent state bodies to this problem. Such a trampling of human dignity urges us to appeal to the Ukrainian authorities at all levels to condemn and ban this shameful phenomenon.
“Faced with these undeniable advances in managing infertility, potential problems have arisen from their use”. During a debate organised by the European Lawyers’ Union (UAE) in Marseille, Gérard Abitbol – the UAE’s dean of honorary presidents – addressed a panel of professionals, the majority of whom were judges, doctors and lawyers. “MAR and surrogacy bear…
One of Us welcomes this decision which strengthens the protection of children and sends a clear signal against surrogacy and human trafficking. Grand Chamber Judgment clarifies that there is no obligation to recognize parental ties if there is no biological link Strasbourg, 24 January 2017 Today the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights…
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe rejected an ambiguous recommendation Strasbourg, 11 October 2016 There is no room for ambiguity on the practice of surrogacy. Today the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), during a plenary sitting, rejected a draft recommendation on surrogacy presented by the Belgian Senator Dr. Petra De…