House of Lords judgement in Dianne Pretty case is welcomed Westminster, --The coalition of pro-life groups which has been involved in the case of Mrs Dianne Pretty has warmly welcomed today's unanimous judgement by five Law Lords that there is no right to be helped to die. The coalition had serious ...

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News, The British House of Lords last night passed a bill which the British government claims will ban so-called reproductive cloning. The Human Reproductive Cloning Bill, aimed at prohibiting the placing in a woman of an embryo created other than by fertilisation, was passed unopposed followi...

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News, An American company claims to have cloned a human being, whilst claiming that it has only produced "celluar life" which is not human. Advanced Cell Technology of Massachusetts says it intends to use clones to produce therapies for diseases such as AIDS and Parkinson's. Professor David Pr...

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News, The leader of English and Welsh Catholics has accused the British government of supporting human cloning yet opposing cloned individuals' right to life. As reported on Wednesday, the Human Reproductive Cloning Bill will ban the implantation of cloned embryos but not their creation, abuse...

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News, Participants at a seminar on bioethics in the European parliament in Brussels have heard that research on adult stem cells has shown far greater therapeutic potential than research on embryonic stem cells. Dr David Prentice, professor in the department of life science at Indiana State Un...

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News, The British government has announced plans to push emergency legislation through parliament next week to ban live-birth human cloning. The bill will be published tomorrow, and the government plans to rush it through all stages in the House of Lords next Monday (26 November) and in the Ho...

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News, SPUC is defying a regulator's ban on its advertising which describes morning-after pills as "abortion-inducing". John Smeaton, SPUC national director, has refused to sign an assurance that he would comply with an Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and cease to use the term. Mr Smeaton...

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News, The English high court has ruled that there is no law governing cloned embryos. Mr Justice Crane agreed with the ProLife Alliance that the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act only governs embryos created by the fusion of sperm and eggs. The British government, which tried to sanc...

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Cloning judgement welcomed London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) welcomed reports of the challenge brought by the ProLife Alliance against the government's human cloning regulations. Initial reports indicate that the challenge has been upheld in the High Court. The judge...

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News, The Population Research Institute has warned that United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) aid to Afghan refugees could include drugs and devices which cause abortion. Mr Steve Mosher, president of the institute, told a recent press conference of how the UNFPA had supplied abortifacient ch...

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News, The leader of English and Welsh Catholics has expressed concern at the level of UK government funding for hospices. Speaking at Thursday's conference of Help The Hospices, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor called for "more realistic and secure" funding for the 185 independent and charitabl...

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News, The main British opposition party has called for the UK parliament to hear evidence on coercive population control programmes, such as those in China. In a parliamentary debate on Wednesday, Mrs Caroline Spelman, Conservative party spokeswoman on international development, argued that, a...

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News, A British government minister has said that Professor Severino Antinori's expected application to conduct reproductive human cloning research in Britain will be rejected. Ms Hazel Blears, a health minister, said: "Worldwide, this is not considered acceptable and it will remain illegal in...

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News, The US attorney general has effectively quashed Oregon's law which permits assisted suicide. Mr John Ashcroft ruled that taking the life of a terminally ill patient was not a "legitimate medical purpose" for federally controlled drugs, thereby reversing the decision of his predecessor, M...

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News, The House of Lords, England's highest court, has granted permission to a coalition of pro-life groups, including SPUC, to intervene in Mrs Dianne Pretty's appeal. Mrs Pretty's request for a right to die was turned down by the High Court, but last week the law lords agreed to hear her app...

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Pro lifers allowed to intervene in Mrs Dianne Pretty's appeal to House of Lords Pro-lifers allowed to intervene in Mrs Dianne Pretty's appeal to House of Lords London, --The pro-life coalition has learned that the House of Lords has granted it leave to intervene in the matter of Mrs Dianne Prett...

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News, An audit of publicly funded abortion facilities in Britain has found that many of them are failing to achieve targets for access set in 1999. An audit of 230 National Health Service abortion facilities in England and Wales carried out by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologi...

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News, An English high court judge yesterday deferred judgement in the judicial review being brought by the ProLife Alliance regarding the UK parliament's vote to authorise so-called therapeutic cloning. A spokesperson for the ProLife Alliance said: "We are genuinely optimistic. We feel the jud...

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News, Mrs Dianne Pretty, whose bid to be given a right to die was rejected by the English high court last month, has been given permission to take her case to the House of Lords. The high court had refused Mrs Pretty leave to appeal, but the appellate committee of the House of Lords, England's...

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Pro-life coalition to intervene in Pretty case London, --A coalition of pro-life organisations is seeking to intervene in the appeal to the House of Lords by Mrs Diane Pretty. Paul Tully, general secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), said: "Those backing Mrs Pretty a...

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