News, The lower house of the Dutch parliament is expected to pass a bill legalising euthanasia next Tuesday, after debating the issue for a final time yesterday. The upper house is then expected to endorse the bill, which would take effect early next year. The Netherlands would thus become the fir...

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News, The Moldovan Orthodox Church has announced that it will excommunicate any member of parliament who votes to legalise abortion. The national parliament voted in favour of a draft law to legalise abortions earlier this month, and a second vote in favour would be a further step towards legalisa...

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News, The Moldovan Orthodox Church has announced that it will excommunicate any member of parliament who votes to legalise abortion. The national parliament voted in favour of a draft law to legalise abortions earlier this month, and a second vote in favour would be a further step towards lega...

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News, Scientists in Hong Kong have successfully identified unborn babies with Down's syndrome by analysing blood samples taken from their mothers. Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, whose study was published in this week's edition of The Lancet, used a technique known as fluor...

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New Down's syndrome test is an affront to the humanity and dignity of the disabled New Down's syndrome test is an affront to the humanity and dignity of the disabled Westminster, --Pro-lifers have condemned reports that a new test for Down's syndrome in unborn babies is 'safer' than amniocentesi...

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News, Scientists in Hong Kong have successfully identified unborn babies with Down's syndrome by analysing blood samples taken from their mothers. Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, whose study was published in this week's edition of The Lancet, used a technique known as fluoresce...

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News, The Catholic University of Rome has announced that it will provide an ethical stem cell bank from the beginning of next year. Blood taken from the placenta (an alternative to using - and destroying - human embryos) will be stored at the bank and provide a future source of stem cells not only...

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News, The Catholic University of Rome has announced that it will provide an ethical stem cell bank from the beginning of next year. Blood taken from the placenta (an alternative to using - and destroying - human embryos) will be stored at the bank and provide a future source of stem cells not ...

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News, Tony Blair, the British prime minister, has affirmed his personal support for stem cell research on human embryos. In a speech to the European Bioscience Conference in London last Friday, Mr Blair suggested that moral concerns over such research were "anti-science" and said: "...our conv...

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News, Tony Blair, the British prime minister, has affirmed his personal support for stem cell research on human embryos. In a speech to the European Bioscience Conference in London last Friday, Mr Blair suggested that moral concerns over such research were "anti-science" and said: "...our convicti...

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News, Patricia and Peter Thompson yesterday won their case against the Sheffield Fertility Centre after the High Court agreed that the clinic had breached it contract with the couple by implanting three embryos in Mrs Thompson instead of two. She refused to have an abortion and gave birth to three...

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News, Patricia and Peter Thompson yesterday won their case against the Sheffield Fertility Centre after the High Court agreed that the clinic had breached it contract with the couple by implanting three embryos in Mrs Thompson instead of two. She refused to have an abortion and gave birth to t...

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SPUC welcomes Tory health spokesman's opposition to cloning SPUC welcomes Tory health spokesman's opposition to cloning Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has welcomed opposition from a Conservative front bench health spokesman to government proposals to allo...

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IVF and the "disturbing commodification of human life" Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has noted that today's victory for Mrs Patricia Thompson in the High Court should be seen in the light of the disturbing commodification of human life which characterises in...

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News, The report of the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, which addresses the issue of abortion in the Republic of Ireland, was published yesterday. Running to 700 pages, it outlines three options. The first option, favoured by the Fine Gael party, would be to retain the curr...

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News, The report of the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, which addresses the issue of abortion in the Republic of Ireland, was published yesterday. Running to 700 pages, it outlines three options. The first option, favoured by the Fine Gael party, would be to retain the current ...

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News, The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have issued a statement to express their great concern at proposals to authorise the cloning of human embryos for research purposes. The bishops stressed that such research was immoral "because it involves the deliberate creation and destruction of n...

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News, The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have issued a statement to express their great concern at proposals to authorise the cloning of human embryos for research purposes. The bishops stressed that such research was immoral "because it involves the deliberate creation and destruction ...

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Pro-lifers slam Rowntree report as "biased and outdated" Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has accused the report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on teenage pregnancy in Doncaster of trying to foist abortion on poor, young single mothers. Paul Tully, general...

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News, Canadian researchers have demonstrated that adult stem cells could be used to build up damaged heart tissue. Scientists at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal isolated stem cells from the bone marrow of adult rats and injected these cells back into the rats' hearts. The stem ...

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