News, Scientists in the United States claim to have produced human embryos by parthenogenesis for the first time. A team led by David Wininger at the Stemron company in Maryland claims to have succeeded in growing unfertilised human eggs to the blastocyst stage - the point at which embryonic s...

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News, Scientists in the United States claim to have produced human embryos by parthenogenesis for the first time. A team led by David Wininger at the Stemron company in Maryland claims to have succeeded in growing unfertilised human eggs to the blastocyst stage - the point at which embryonic stem ...

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News, The relatives of the British couple who died in an assisted suicide in Switzerland earlier this month have called for the group which helped them to die to be closed down. It has emerged that Robert and Jennifer Stokes did not tell their family or friends before they travelled to Zurich to t...

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News, The relatives of the British couple who died in an assisted suicide in Switzerland earlier this month have called for the group which helped them to die to be closed down. It has emerged that Robert and Jennifer Stokes did not tell their family or friends before they travelled to Zurich ...

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News, The Catholic bishops of Scotland have said that Catholic voters in the forthcoming elections to the Scottish parliament on 1 May must consider the stands of the political parties on moral issues including abortion. In a letter to be sent to all parishes in Scotland, the bishops say that ...

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News, The Catholic bishops of Scotland have said that Catholic voters in the forthcoming elections to the Scottish parliament on 1 May must consider the stands of the political parties on moral issues including abortion. In a letter to be sent to all parishes in Scotland, the bishops say that Cath...

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News, The Swiss authorities could be challenged over the legality of the assisted suicide of a British couple in Zurich at the beginning of this month [reported yesterday]. Mr Andrew Selous, the member of parliament of the late Mr and Mrs Robert Stokes, says he will ask the British government to m...

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News, The Swiss authorities could be challenged over the legality of the assisted suicide of a British couple in Zurich at the beginning of this month [reported yesterday ]. Mr Andrew Selous, the member of parliament of the late Mr and Mrs Robert Stokes, says he will ask the British government...

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News, A British couple are said to have used barbiturates to kill themselves with the help of a pro-euthanasia organisation in a flat in Switzerland at the beginning of this month. Mr Robert Stokes, 59, who had epilepsy, and Mrs Jennifer Stokes, 53, who suffered from diabetes and back problems...

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News, A British couple are said to have used barbiturates to kill themselves with the help of a pro-euthanasia organisation in a flat in Switzerland at the beginning of this month. Mr Robert Stokes, 59, who had epilepsy, and Mrs Jennifer Stokes, 53, who suffered from diabetes and back problems, tr...

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News, It has emerged that an amendment to a proposed directive to ban all destructive experiments on human embryos was lost by just one vote in the European parliament last week. Members of the parliament voted last Thursday to adopt a proposed directive on human tissues and cells which would ban ...

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News, It has emerged that an amendment to a proposed directive to ban all destructive experiments on human embryos was lost by just one vote in the European parliament last week. Members of the parliament voted last Thursday to adopt a proposed directive on human tissues and cells which would ...

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News, American researchers who have tried and failed to clone monkeys have concluded that human cloning may never be possible. A team at the University of Pittsburgh tried to clone 700 macaque monkey eggs using the technique employed to produce Dolly the sheep, but without success. In the proc...

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News, American researchers who have tried and failed to clone monkeys have concluded that human cloning may never be possible. A team at the University of Pittsburgh tried to clone 700 macaque monkey eggs using the technique employed to produce Dolly the sheep, but without success. In the process ...

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News, The House of Lords, Britain's highest court, has ruled that the BBC was within its rights to refuse to broadcast a party election film by the ProLife Alliance which depicted images of abortion on the grounds that it was "grossly offensive". The law lords' 4-1 decision was announced today, al...

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News, The House of Lords, Britain's highest court, has ruled that the BBC was within its rights to refuse to broadcast a party election film by the ProLife Alliance which depicted images of abortion on the grounds that it was "grossly offensive". The law lords' 4-1 decision was announced today...

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SPUC applauds embryo vote Westminster, --British pro-lifers are delighted by the vote in the European parliament today to ban destructive research on human embryos. Meeting in Strasbourg, MEPs voted in favour of a proposed directive aimed at banning all human cloning, both for reproductive and so-ca...

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News, A survey commissioned by British research organisations has indicated that a majority of the public support destructive medical research on human embryos in certain circumstances. The survey, commissioned by a coalition of organisations including the Parkinson's Disease Society and the M...

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News, A survey commissioned by British research organisations has indicated that a majority of the public support destructive medical research on human embryos in certain circumstances. The survey, commissioned by a coalition of organisations including the Parkinson's Disease Society and the Medic...

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News, The English Court of Appeal ruled today that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) does have the power to authorise the creation of so-called designer babies to serve as tissue donors for sick older siblings. The judgement, which overturns an earlier ruling by the High Cour...

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