The Catholic University of Murcia has inaugurated this morning the Conference on Bioethics
Women who have abortions have higher rates of anxiety and depression.
This is one of the ideas that were presented this morning at the Third Conference on Bioethics has launched the San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), entitled "Key issues in contemporary bioethics III '.
The symposium, which ends next Friday, Jan. 21, home to many experts involved in the world of bioethics, addressing topics such as bioethics at the beginning of life, bioethics, public relations or bioethics and the individual.
During the inauguration of the conference, which will close the Master of Bioethics at the Catholic University of Murcia, have involved the Vice Chancellor of University Extension of the UCAM, Antonio Alcaraz, the Professor of Bioethics at the University, and director of the Master Bioethics Officer, Gloria M ª Tomás and Garrido, and the president of the Foundation Bioethics, M ª Dolores Mirror.
Bioethics at the beginning of life
In the first panel of experts have spoken the Coordinator of the Fetal Medicine Unit of the Region of Murcia, Juan Luis Delgado, a specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital Punta de Europa (Algeciras), and president of the Ethics Committee of Obstetricians and the Right to Live, Esteban Rodriguez, and the psychologist and specialist in couples and family therapy, Tasio Pérez.
The Coordinator of the Fetal Medicine Unit of the Region of Murcia has lectured on "Prenatal diagnosis" an open door to eugenics?
The rapporteur has said that prenatal diagnosis is a medical scientific information that can be oriented in various ways.
Juan Luis Delgado has asserted that "the techniques of prenatal diagnosis should not be considered illegal by themselves, but those acts to the detriment of fetal life from a previous diagnosis."
The second step was the president of Gynaecologists Ethics Committee for the Right to Life, who has lectured on the misuse of scientific reality in adaptation to the political terminology.
Esteban Rodriguez started his presentation by stating that "the implementation of strategies for prenatal screening or selection coupled with laws that protect the destruction of human life before birth in the world, are leading to an increasing number of abortions."
He added that as a result, the health care worker who participates in these programs "is necessary to become a cooperator of abortion justified in the course of 'fetal risk,'" he assured.
For its part, Psychologist and Specialist in couples and family therapy, Tasio Perez, has focused his speech on abortion and mental health.
The speaker explained that there are more than reasonable suspicion that demonstrate the relationship between induced abortion and subsequent problems in the psychic area.
"Anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, showing higher rates in women who have abortions," stated Dr. Perez.
Doctor in Medicine and Surgery, and chief scientist of Neocodex SL, Agustín Ruiz, has been commissioned to open the second panel of experts in the morning, where he has lectured on human beings = "Genome?
About the Human Genome Project, has been reported that the speaker is not finished, and its objective is "to know the molecular basis of health and disease states of human beings," he said.
In addition, Agustín Ruiz remarked that the variability of the human DNA sequence "corroborates our unique and unrepeatable character of each individual," and added that "we are confident that the message printed on our DNA is a biological program that contains all instructions to develop a complete human being and run it throughout his life. This certainly should lead us to preserve and promote the rights of every individual from the moment of conception. "
Noteworthy are the discussions by Roberto Germain during their conference 'Challenges and shortcomings of IVF embryos frozen', during which he asserted that "in the transmission of life to mere production process is implied instrumentalization of the child" .
Also in the Day of the morning has also intervened MD, Modesto Ferrer, who has lectured on 'The fallacy of the pre-embryo'
During the conference in the afternoon the President of the Cinema Writers Circle, Jerónimo José Martín, reflected on abortion in contemporary cinema.
Source: UCAM