The world's first human embryo bank has been launched in the US allowing infertile couples to buy ready-made embryos matched to their requirements for around £5,000. The embryos are created from eggs and sperm from two donors who have never met. Couples can choose what eye and hair colour they would...

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The mother of a baby girl born after an ectopic pregnancy has told how she rejected her doctors' suggestion of an abortion. Claire Simpson gave birth to Molly in an emergency Caesarean section at Sunderland Royal Hospital after a scan detected that Molly was growing attached to the ligament tissue i...

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An Argentine court has authorised an abortion on a 19 year old mentally impaired woman. It is asserted that she was raped. The supreme court of Buenos Aires province ruled that an abortion in the woman's case was a permissible exception to Argentina's constitution, which recognises the humanity of t...

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Mr Tony Blair, the British prime minister, is expected to promote embryonic stem cell research in America this week. He will suggest partnerships between Britain and Californian biotechnology firms this week, according to AFP of San Francisco. The BBC say he will suggest that Britain is the place to...

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weekly update, 27 to 31 July weekly update, 27 to 31 July Women in Britain are to be offered half-price IVF treatment in exchange for donating some of their eggs for embryonic stem cell research. Researchers in Durham and Newcastle have been given permission by the Human Fertilisation and Embryo...

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Women in Britain are to be offered half-price IVF treatment in exchange for donating some of their eggs for embryonic stem cell research. Researchers in Durham and Newcastle have been given permission by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to go ahead with the scheme, which will ...

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Nine women who had abortions have written about their experiences and the effect that it has had on their lives in a British newspaper. Writing in the Daily Mail, the women expressed a variety of reactions and most said that they felt some kind of regret and guilt. Elaine Jowsey, who had an abortion...

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weekly update, 19 to 26 July weekly update, 19 to 26 July Ministers from member states of the European Union have recommended that funding for research using embryonic stem cells should continue, but not for the harvesting of embryonic stem cells, which is directly destructive of the embryo. The...

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Women who diet during pregnancy are putting the health of their unborn child at risk, according to a study by British scientists. Researchers from the University of Southampton found that children whose mothers do not eat enough in pregnancy are more likely to suffer from hardened arteries, a condit...

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More than one schoolgirl per day has an abortion in one region of Britain. In the West Midlands, nearly 1,500 underage girls have had abortions in the last three years and there is a year on year 1000 increase in the total number of abortions in the area. The area has one of the highest abortion rat...

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Baroness Warnock has asserted her anti-life views in a question and answer session in a British paper. Lady Warnock, whose 1984 report led to the legal regulation of IVF and embryo experimentation in the UK, answered a range of question on ethical issues such as abortion, euthanasia and eugenics in ...

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Italy's Cassation Court issued a decision on July 18 clarifying that under Italian law there is no such thing as a "right not to be born," in response to parents attempting to sue doctors who fail to recommend abortion when the child is likely to be disabled. These are known as "wrongful birth" or "...

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The United States Senate has passed three bills on embryo experimentation: the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, to provide federal funding for embryonic stem cell research; the Fetus Farming Prohibition Act, to ban the use of unborn children as tissue sources; and the Alternative Pluripotent Stem...

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weekly update, 14 to 18 July weekly update, 14 to 18 July Women are to be offered supplies of the morning-after pill in advance of need via a web-site. DrThom, a web-only service registered with the health service regulator, said it would do everything reasonable to ensure that the medication, c...

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The Citizens Rights Defence Network, an independent Chinese group, has sent an appeal to the Chinese parliament to prevent the imprisonment of a blind rural activist who exposed forced sterilisations and abortions carried out by local authorities in the eastern province of Shandong. Civil rights act...

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Following last week's failure of 'D' to win a hearing in the European Court of Human Rights, the Irish Times has published a story presenting a strongly pro-abortion slant on the case. Leading pro-abortion barrister, Barbara Hewson, who acted for 'D', has pointed to the suggestion that an embryo wit...

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Pro abortion lawyers cannot 'spin' a victory from the lost 'D' case, says SPUC Pro-abortion lawyers cannot 'spin' a victory from the lost 'D' case, says SPUC Belfast, - Pro-abortion lawyers cannot turn their failure in the 'D' case into a propaganda victory, said the Society for the Protection ...

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The number of abortions carried out in one southern region of Britain has risen by 20% in one year. 647 women had abortions in South Gloucestershire in 2005, compared to 539 in 2004. This is Bristol says The Family Planning Association has attributed the increase to a lack of birth control services ...

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weekly update, 5 to 13 July weekly update, 5 to 13 July SPUC has commented on government statistics on abortions performed last year in England and Wales, and has accused the government of threatening doctors with punitive action if they do not make access to abortion easy. John Smeaton, SPUC's ...

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A population control group has called for a one-child policy to be implemented worldwide. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says that the policy, along with sustainable resource consumption, is needed to reduce the world's population, which is currently at about 6.5 billion. SPA President Ian M...

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