News, The British health secretary will announce today that the UK is to become the first country in the world explicitly to ban the birth of cloned babies [see last Tuesday's digest]. However, media reports have presented the move as a prohibition of human cloning when this is not the case. The n...

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News, Scientists at Cambridge University in the UK claim to have discovered a new way of promoting the regeneration of cells in the brain and spinal column. Damage to the central nervous system is permanent because nerve fibres do not re-grow naturally, leading to paralysis. Researchers led by Dr ...

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News, Scientists at Cambridge University in the UK claim to have discovered a new way of promoting the regeneration of cells in the brain and spinal column. Damage to the central nervous system is permanent because nerve fibres do not re-grow naturally, leading to paralysis. Researchers led by...

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News, A British government minister has condemned the selective abortion of children with Down's syndrome. Brian Wilson, a new foreign office minister, said that the use of amniocentesis tests which resulted in the elimination of 95% of children found to have the condition was "grotesque". Mr ...

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News, A British government minister has condemned the selective abortion of children with Down's syndrome. Brian Wilson, a new foreign office minister, said that the use of amniocentesis tests which resulted in the elimination of 95% of children found to have the condition was "grotesque". Mr Wils...

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News, Scientists working for an American company believe they have developed a new method of obtaining a plentiful supply of embryonic stem cells from the placenta expelled by a mother after childbirth. If verified, this would constitute an ethical alternative to the destructive use of human embry...

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News, Scientists working for an American company believe they have developed a new method of obtaining a plentiful supply of embryonic stem cells from the placenta expelled by a mother after childbirth. If verified, this would constitute an ethical alternative to the destructive use of human e...

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News, Euthanasia will be legal in the Netherlands before the end of the month after the country's upper house of parliament passed the measure yesterday by 46 votes to 28. The law will take effect once it has received Queen Beatrix's assent and has been published in the official media. 10,000 ...

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News, Euthanasia will be legal in the Netherlands before the end of the month after the country's upper house of parliament passed the measure yesterday by 46 votes to 28. The law will take effect once it has received Queen Beatrix's assent and has been published in the official media. 10,000 oppo...

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News, The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has urged lawyers to use human rights legislation to protect unborn children from the moment of conception. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, archbishop of Westminster, made his appeal in Counsel, the official barristers' magazine. ...

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News, The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has urged lawyers to use human rights legislation to protect unborn children from the moment of conception. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, archbishop of Westminster, made his appeal in Counsel, the official barristers' magazi...

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News, The Roman Catholic bishops of Scotland have condemned the abortifacient morning-after pill, which they describe as the equivalent of a chemically-induced abortion. The pastoral letter, signed by all eight Scottish bishops, follows the decision by the British government to make the mornin...

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Labour plan to legalise euthanasia Westminster, --Claims that the Labour party plans to legalise euthanasia in England and Wales should it win the general election have been greeted by concern but not surprise by Britain's longest-established pro-life group. A Labour party spokesman refused to confi...

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News, The Roman Catholic bishops of Scotland have condemned the abortifacient morning-after pill, which they describe as the equivalent of a chemically-induced abortion. The pastoral letter, signed by all eight Scottish bishops, follows the decision by the British government to make the morning-af...

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News, The European Union's Council of Ministers has affirmed that national abortion legislation does not come within the competency of European Community law and is not an obstacle to full membership of the European Union (EU). The statement follows concern on the part of some members of the Europ...

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News, The European Union's Council of Ministers has affirmed that national abortion legislation does not come within the competency of European Community law and is not an obstacle to full membership of the European Union (EU). The statement follows concern on the part of some members of the E...

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News, The Roman Catholic bishops of Uganda have issued a strongly-worded attack on the abortifacient morning-after pill after it emerged that Commercial Marketing Strategies, an American-funded organisation, was making the drug available in their country. In an open letter, the bishops insiste...

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News, The Roman Catholic bishops of Uganda have issued a strongly-worded attack on the abortifacient morning-after pill after it emerged that Commercial Marketing Strategies, an American-funded organisation, was making the drug available in their country. In an open letter, the bishops insisted th...

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News, Official figures released in China last week indicated that the imbalance between the number of boys and girls has increased markedly over the last 10 years. The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics revealed that there are now 117 boys for every 100 girls, compared to a ratio of 111 boys to...

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News, Official figures released in China last week indicated that the imbalance between the number of boys and girls has increased markedly over the last 10 years. The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics revealed that there are now 117 boys for every 100 girls, compared to a ratio of 111 boy...

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