News, The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Slovak parliament have said that they will not sign a bill passed last week allowing abortion up to 24 weeks "in cases of genetic defects." Slovak President Rudolf Schuster has said that he will not sign the bill without their signatures. Slovak medi...

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News, The EU Commission has approved guidelines allowing funding for research on 'spare' IVF embryos. EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin stated: "By setting strict ethical rules...for such funding, the EU contributes in a responsible way to advancing this science for the benefit of pati...

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News, The EU Commission has approved guidelines allowing funding for research on 'spare' IVF embryos. EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin stated: "By setting strict ethical rules...for such funding, the EU contributes in a responsible way to advancing this science for the benefit of patients...

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News, The deaths of the Iranian conjoined twins after pioneering surgery to separate them, has raised questions about the ethics of the operation. Ladan and Laleh Bijani, who were joined at the head, died in a Singapore hospital as surgeons attempted to separate their brains which had become fused...

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News, The deaths of the Iranian conjoined twins after pioneering surgery to separate them, has raised questions about the ethics of the operation. Ladan and Laleh Bijani, who were joined at the head, died in a Singapore hospital as surgeons attempted to separate their brains which had become f...

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SPUC condemns EU decision to fund destructive embryo research Brussels, - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned today's decision by the European Commission allowing European Union funding of destructive stem cell research using so-called "spare embryos". SPUC politi...

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News, The European Commission is to publish proposed guidelines on research grants tomorrow, a move that has sparked fears of a confrontation over the proposal to give grants for human embryonic stem cell research involving 'spare' IVF embryos. Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany and Ireland have ...

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News, The European Commission is to publish proposed guidelines on research grants tomorrow, a move that has sparked fears of a confrontation over the proposal to give grants for human embryonic stem cell research involving 'spare' IVF embryos. Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany and Ireland have expr...

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News, The Northern Ireland High Court has rejected the Family Planning Association's judicial review on abortion, the BBC reports. The FPA claimed that current abortion law in Northern Ireland is unclear and wanted to force the Department of Health to issue guidelines to doctors on when abortions ...

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News, The Northern Ireland High Court has rejected the Family Planning Association's judicial review on abortion, the BBC reports. The FPA claimed that current abortion law in Northern Ireland is unclear and wanted to force the Department of Health to issue guidelines to doctors on when aborti...

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SPUC welcomes Northern Ireland abortion decision Belfast, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has welcomed Mr Justice Kerr's decision today in the Belfast high court on the Family Planning Association's judicial review on abortion in Northern Ireland. It will contest any appea...

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News, Experts at a gathering of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology in Madrid have condemned the creation of human embryos that are part-male, part-female. Dr Norbert Gleicher of the Centre for Human Reproduction in Chicago and his team created the embryos by injecting f...

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News, Experts at a gathering of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology in Madrid have condemned the creation of human embryos that are part-male, part-female. Dr Norbert Gleicher of the Centre for Human Reproduction in Chicago and his team created the embryos by injecting femal...

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News, Baroness Warnock, the Labour peer who drafted the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act has stated that she has no "moral objection" to the eggs of aborted baby girls being used in fertility treatment. She said, "when it comes to using eggs from aborted foetuses to fertilise and then i...

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News, Baroness Warnock, the Labour peer who drafted the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act has stated that she has no "moral objection" to the eggs of aborted baby girls being used in fertility treatment. She said, "when it comes to using eggs from aborted foetuses to fertilise and th...

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News, Research on aborted girls has focused media attention on the prospect of growing eggs for IVF from foetal tissue. Dutch and Israeli scientists kept alive ovarian follicles from second and third trimester foetuses in the laboratory and some follicles began to develop. Presenting their res...

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News, Research on aborted girls has focused media attention on the prospect of growing eggs for IVF from foetal tissue. Dutch and Israeli scientists kept alive ovarian follicles from second and third trimester foetuses in the laboratory and some follicles began to develop. Presenting their researc...

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News, A British woman who travelled to Spain so that she could have IVF treatment and choose the sex of her baby is pregnant with twin girls. The selection of embryos for implantation based on gender is currently illegal in the UK except in cases of gender-based genetic disease. Nicola Chenery, wh...

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News, A British woman who travelled to Spain so that she could have IVF treatment and choose the sex of her baby is pregnant with twin girls. The selection of embryos for implantation based on gender is currently illegal in the UK except in cases of gender-based genetic disease. Nicola Chenery...

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News, The UK government today published a Draft Mental Incapacity Bill, which it claims will effect in law the principle that adults have capacity to make their own decisions. [BBC, 27 June ] SPUC general secretary Paul Tully commented: "The government's draft Bill would establish a system in ...

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