News, Clinica Ginemedex, the Spanish clinic exposed by undercover Telegraph reporters for performing illegal late abortions on British women, performed an abortion on a young Muslim woman after her father and brothers murdered her fiancé, the Telegraph reports. Thames Valley Police are considering...

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News, A South Korean pioneer of human cloning has apologised and resigned from all his official posts after admitting that he used ova from paid donors and donated by women from his research team. Earlier in the month, a researcher from the University of Pittsburgh ended his collaboration with Hwa...

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A South Korean pioneer of human cloning has apologised and resigned from all his official posts after admitting that he used ova from paid donors and donated by women from his research team. Earlier in the month, a researcher from the University of Pittsburgh ended his collaboration with Hwang Woo-S...

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US children conceived using anonymous sperm donations are using a new website to locate their half-siblings, Bioedge reports. Some 30,000 children are born from donated sperm every year, with sperm banks often unclear as to how many children are fathered by the same donor. Opponents of anonymous spe...

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News, US children conceived using anonymous sperm donations are using a new website to locate their half-siblings, Bioedge reports. Some 30,000 children are born from donated sperm every year, with sperm banks often unclear as to how many children are fathered by the same donor. Opponents of anony...

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News, The Italian pro-life group Movement for Life has responded enthusiastically to Health Minister Francesco Storace's proposal that pro-life representatives should be allowed into Italy's 2,000 state abortion facilities to offer advice and alternative support to women considering abortion. Stor...

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The Italian pro-life group Movement for Life has responded enthusiastically to Health Minister Francesco Storace's proposal that pro-life representatives should be allowed into Italy's 2,000 state abortion facilities to offer advice and alternative support to women considering abortion. Storace spok...

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The Bishop of Arlington, Paul Loverde, preached a homily at the Respect for Life Mass held in Fairfax a few weeks ago in which he emphasised the link between embryonic stem cell therapy and other anti-life practices such as abortion. 'One cannot be against abortion yet condone the destruction of emb...

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News, The Bishop of Arlington, Paul Loverde, preached a homily at the Respect for Life Mass held in Fairfax a few weeks ago in which he emphasised the link between embryonic stem cell therapy and other anti-life practices such as abortion. 'One cannot be against abortion yet condone the destructio...

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News, A 19-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis who travelled to the Netherlands for stem cell treatment has claimed that it has transformed her life. Amanda Bryson underwent therapy involving cells taken from umbilical cords and says that she is now able to walk, having previously needed a whee...

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A 19-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis who travelled to the Netherlands for stem cell treatment has claimed that it has transformed her life.Amanda Bryson underwent therapy involving cells taken from umbilical cords and says that she is now able to walk, having previously needed a wheelchair. H...

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China's senior population official has admitted that the country's gender imbalance has yet to be dealt with effectively. There are thought to be 119 boys born for every 100 girls, with the imbalance as high as 130 boys to 100 girls in the southern provinces, largely as a result of the one-child pol...

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News, China's senior population official has admitted that the country's gender imbalance has yet to be dealt with effectively. There are thought to be 119 boys born for every 100 girls, with the imbalance as high as 130 boys to 100 girls in the southern provinces, largely as a result of the one-c...

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News, An American embryologist has ended his partnership with Korean human cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk over ethical concerns regarding egg donation. Dr Gerald Schatten, of the University of Pittsburgh, said that he had reason to believe that Professor Hwang had obtained eggs for his research fro...

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An American embryologist has ended his partnership with Korean human cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk over ethical concerns regarding egg donation. Dr Gerald Schatten, of the University of Pittsburgh, said that he had reason to believe that Professor Hwang had obtained eggs for his research from a juni...

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Dignitas, the Swiss group that provides assisted suicide at its Zurich clinic, is being investigated following the death of a German terrorist who used false papers stating that she was terminally ill. The 69-year-old woman was prescribed a lethal dose of drugs after she produced a false GP's report...

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News, Dignitas, the Swiss group that provides assisted suicide at its Zurich clinic, is being investigated following the death of a German terrorist who used false papers stating that she was terminally ill. The 69-year-old woman was prescribed a lethal dose of drugs after she produced a false GP'...

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Assisted suicide bill threatens the vulnerable and will corrupt medics, says SPUC Assisted suicide bill threatens the vulnerable and will corrupt medics, says SPUC Westminster, 10th November 2005 - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), a member of the Campaign Against Euthana...

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News, The mother of a teenage girl who hit the headlines last year when she had a secret abortion arranged for her by her school is to act as a witness in the High Court case over whether minors should be able to undergo abortions without parental knowledge. Melissa Smith, then 14 years old, regre...

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The mother of a teenage girl who hit the headlines last year when she had a secret abortion arranged for her by her school is to act as a witness in the High Court case over whether minors should be able to undergo abortions without parental knowledge. Melissa Smith, then 14 years old, regretted the...

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