News, A speeding motorist has been sent to prison for four years in England for the offence of causing death by dangerous driving even though the victim was still unborn at the time of the accident. Karl Phillipson was driving at 41 mph in an area with a 30 mph limit in Bristol when he hit a 27-ye...

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News, A British mother of four sons will travel to an undisclosed European fertility clinic this week in her bid to have a daughter. Nicola Chenery from Plymouth is spending £6,000 to conceive and select a female child using in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)...

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News, A British mother of four sons will travel to an undisclosed European fertility clinic this week in her bid to have a daughter. Nicola Chenery from Plymouth is spending £6,000 to conceive and select a female child using in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (...

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News, The UK's Medical Research Council (MRC) is offering money to fertility clinics to encourage them to provide more spare embryos for destructive research. The MRC, which receives funding from the British government, has written to selected IVF clinics offering "limited pump-priming money" ...

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News, The UK's Medical Research Council (MRC) is offering money to fertility clinics to encourage them to provide more spare embryos for destructive research. The MRC, which receives funding from the British government, has written to selected IVF clinics offering "limited pump-priming money" to e...

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News, 500 human embryos have been destroyed by mistake at Israel's largest in vitro fertilisation (IVF) facility. The embryos died after the founder and head of the fertility laboratory at the Rabin Medical Centre - Hasharon Campus in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv forgot to seal the container in which...

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News, 500 human embryos have been destroyed by mistake at Israel's largest in vitro fertilisation (IVF) facility. The embryos died after the founder and head of the fertility laboratory at the Rabin Medical Centre - Hasharon Campus in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv forgot to seal the container in w...

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News, A scheme to provide the abortifacient morning-after pill free of charge to women over 16 in Ayrshire and Arran, Scotland, is to be re-introduced after health officials claimed that a pilot scheme had proved successful. Women over the age of 16 can already obtain the morning-after pill fr...

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News, A scheme to provide the abortifacient morning-after pill free of charge to women over 16 in Ayrshire and Arran, Scotland, is to be re-introduced after health officials claimed that a pilot scheme had proved successful. Women over the age of 16 can already obtain the morning-after pill from p...

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News, The American company which claims to have cloned a human being who was born last week now says that identification tests have been carried out on the child and the results are due next week. Clonaid, which is associated with the Raelian cult, asserts that DNA tests, which could prove that ba...

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News, The American company which claims to have cloned a human being who was born last week now says that identification tests have been carried out on the child and the results are due next week. Clonaid, which is associated with the Raelian cult, asserts that DNA tests, which could prove tha...

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News, The worldwide reaction to claims by Clonaid that the first full-term cloned human baby was born last week [see digest for 27 December ] has been almost universally condemnatory. President Jacques Chirac of France described cloning as "contrary to the dignity of man", while US President G...

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News, The worldwide reaction to claims by Clonaid that the first full-term cloned human baby was born last week [see digest for 27 December] has been almost universally condemnatory. President Jacques Chirac of France described cloning as "contrary to the dignity of man", while US President George...

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News, Clonaid, an organisation linked to the Raelian cult, claimed today that the first full-term cloned human baby has been born alive and well. Brigitte Boisselier, the scientific director of Clonaid, told a news conference in Florida at 9 a.m. local time that a cloned baby girl named Eve ha...

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News, Doctors in Israel have succeeded in using cells from aborted unborn children to grow functioning kidneys inside mice. A team at the Weizmann Institute of Science extracted kidney precursor stem cells from foetuses aborted between seven and eight weeks' gestation and transplanted them int...

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News, In a major victory for the British pro-life movement, the high court in London ruled today that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) acted beyond its powers in authorising the creation of a so-called designer baby. Josephine Quintavalle, on behalf of Comment on Reprodu...

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Designer baby challenge success Westminster, --Josephine Quintavalle of Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE) was congratulated on her high court victory over the embryology authority today by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. Paul Tully of SPUC said: "Josephine Quintavalle, on beha...

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News, Researchers in Australia may have discovered why babies who are exposed to tobacco smoke in the womb are at an increased risk of cot death. Previous studies have indicated that maternal smoking during pregnancy could be implicated in 30% of cot deaths, and now scientists at the Royal Chi...

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News, The United States has been overwhelmingly defeated in its bid to have pro-abortion language omitted from the plan of action adopted yesterday at the UN-sponsored Asian and Pacific population conference in Bangkok. The text of the plan includes "reproductive health services" among those "...

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News, An Italian public prosecutor has opened an investigation into plans to test the RU-486 abortion drug regimen at the Sant'Anna hospital in Turin. Italy is one of the few European countries not to have licensed RU-486, and news of plans to test the drug on 400 women in Turin met with wides...

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