News, A British government watchdog has attacked a section of the 1967 Abortion Act as discriminatory. The Disability Rights Commission (DRC), which was set up by the government last year to advise on ways to combat discrimination against the disabled, issued a statement last week criticising ...

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News, US federal funding will not go to research on human embryos created in the laboratory in future. SPUC welcomed President Bush's announcement yesterday, describing it as a courageous stand, but also expressed concerns that funding would be allowed for projects using stem cell lines alread...

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SPUC welcomes Bush decision on embryo research—with reservations Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has welcomed President Bush's rejection of research on human embryos, describing it as a courageous stand, though SPUC has also voiced concerns. John Smeaton, SPUC...

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News, Human reproductive cloning is set to begin in November and SPUC sees this is the inevitable outcome of British legalisation of so-called therapeutic cloning. Professor Severino Antinori--who has acknowledged his debt to the UK government--will this week announce his intention to use clon...

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Cloned babies "inevitable outcome" of British lead on embryo cloning Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) today said that moves by Professor Severino Antinori of Rome to produce cloned babies were the inevitable outcome of the promotion of cloning for therapeutic p...

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Official Solicitor "might have seemed to condone euthanasia" Westminster, --The Official Solicitor may have detracted from his role as an advocate for children and incapacitated patients, and might have appeared to condone euthanasia, says the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC). SP...

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News, SPUC has claimed that the English Official Solicitor may have detracted from his role and might have appeared to condone euthanasia. It was reported by the BBC that the Official Solicitor had approved the legality of draft guidance issued by the General Medical Council (GMC) on withholdi...

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News, President Bush has welcomed Tuesday's vote in the House of Representatives against human cloning. Mr Bush described the vote as a strong ethical statement and said that science had to advance in a way which honoured and respected life. Catholic authorities in Rome have also welcomed the ...

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News, The US House of Representatives last night voted by 265 to 162 to adopt a bill to ban human cloning, with penalties of up to 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine. The House rejected a measure which would have allowed cloning for research by 249 to 178. The Senate will next debate the...

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Congressional vote against cloning is welcomed Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has welcomed yesterday's decision by the US House of Representatives to ban all human cloning. Paul Tully, SPUC general secretary, said: "In the UK any form of cloning--whether for ...

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News, Certain United Nations committees have been accused of implementing an anti-life, anti-family agenda, regardless of the provisions of UN treaties. Mrs Amina Mesdoua told the World Family Policy Forum's meeting in Utah that the Committee on the Rights of the Child had promoted a new inter...

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News, The judiciary committee of the US House of Representatives has voted by 18 to 11 to ban human cloning. Mr Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life committee said that those supporting cloning were out of step with public opinion as expressed in a poll last month in which 86% opposed...

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News, The Pope has warned President Bush of the evils of embryo research, describing how consciences had been coarsened. During a meeting at the papal summer residence, the pontiff also mentioned assaults on the unborn and euthanasia. John Paul II said that a free and virtuous society needed t...

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News, A group of doctors and lawyers in Britain have criticised the General Medical Council for restricting access to a conference today on the withdrawal of food and fluid from patients. The group also describes the council's draft guidance on withdrawal of food and fluid as apparently legall...

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News, The British government has refused to make overseas aid conditional on human rights, despite its commitment to an ethical foreign policy. The statement was made by Baroness Amos, a foreign office minister, during a House of Lords debate on the International Development Bill on Monday. An...

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SPUC condemns government on human rights and aid Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned the British government's refusal to make overseas aid conditional on human rights. Speaking in yesterday's debate on the International Development Bill, Baroness Amo...

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SPUC condemns awarding of Olympics to rights-abusing China Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned the awarding of the 2008 Olympic Games to China, warning that the move will do nothing to stop human rights abuses such as China's policy of enforced steri...

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News, One-year-old children seem to remember sounds they hear in the womb, according to a study at Leicester university, England. Children were found to prefer music which their mothers had played to them during the last three months of pregnancy. Dr Alexandra Lamont of the university's music ...

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News, Women could reproduce without men using a technique which creates embryos by combining female cell tissue with eggs. Scientists in Melbourne, Australia, have succeeded in chemically rendering mouse-cells similar to sperm by removing one of two sets of chromosomes. The team at Monash univ...

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News, The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has launched a nationwide petition to stop girls as young as 11 from being given morning-after pills at school. John Smeaton, SPUC national director, said: "Morning-after pills can cause abortions and they contain a massive hormona...

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