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 cell...

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News, An audit of Britain's 118 in vitro fertilisation (IVF) clinics has revealed that frozen embryos have been destroyed as a result of power failures, or implanted into the wrong women as a result of mistakes in data collection. The audit, which was carried out by the Human Fertilisation and Emb...

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News, An audit of Britain's 118 in vitro fertilisation (IVF) clinics has revealed that frozen embryos have been destroyed as a result of power failures, or implanted into the wrong women as a result of mistakes in data collection. The audit, which was carried out by the Human Fertilisation and...

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News, The Italian cardinal who offered sanctuary to the family of Siamese twins Jodie and Mary in order to save Mary from being killed in an operation to separate the pair has described as "unacceptable" the fact that the parents were prevented from appealing to the House of Lords due to lack ...

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SPUC challenges MPs to come clean on cloning Westminster, --In the run-up to next week's House of Commons adjournment debate on human cloning, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has challenged MPs to explain their position on the moral status of the human embryo. In separate le...

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News, The Italian cardinal who offered sanctuary to the family of Siamese twins Jodie and Mary in order to save Mary from being killed in an operation to separate the pair has described as "unacceptable" the fact that the parents were prevented from appealing to the House of Lords due to lack of m...

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News, Voters in the American state of Maine have voted against the legalisation of assisted suicide. 330,831 votes were recorded against the measure, compared to 313,454 votes in favour. This represented a 51 to 49 percent split. Oregon remains the only American state in which assisted suicide is ...

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News, Voters in the American state of Maine have voted against the legalisation of assisted suicide. 330,831 votes were recorded against the measure, compared to 313,454 votes in favour. This represented a 51 to 49 percent split. Oregon remains the only American state in which assisted suicide...

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News, Hillary Clinton, the pro-abortionist American first lady who said that she would support the campaign to liberalise abortion laws in Brazil if elected to the US Senate [see digest for 1 September ] won her race in New York last night. In May, Mrs Clinton had commented: "I intend to be a ...

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News, Hillary Clinton, the pro-abortionist American first lady who said that she would support the campaign to liberalise abortion laws in Brazil if elected to the US Senate [see digest for 1 September] won her race in New York last night. In May, Mrs Clinton had commented: "I intend to be a voice...

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News, The 20-hour operation to separate Siamese twins Jodie and Mary ended at 5 o'clock this morning in St Mary's hospital, Manchester. The hospital confirmed that "despite all the efforts of the medical team, Mary sadly died". Jodie is said to be in a "critical, but stable condition", though the ...

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News, The 20-hour operation to separate Siamese twins Jodie and Mary ended at 5 o'clock this morning in St Mary's hospital, Manchester. The hospital confirmed that "despite all the efforts of the medical team, Mary sadly died". Jodie is said to be in a "critical, but stable condition", though ...

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News, The operation to separate Siamese twins Jodie and Mary is underway as this digest is being written. The operation at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester, England, will take up to 18 hours and involve the death of Mary when the fused spinal cords are separated and Mary's blood supply is cut ...

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News, The operation to separate Siamese twins Jodie and Mary is underway as this digest is being written. The operation at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester, England, will take up to 18 hours and involve the death of Mary when the fused spinal cords are separated and Mary's blood supply is cut off....

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News, As the morning-after pill went on sale in Italy yesterday, the president of the Italian bishops' conference reaffirmed the Church's position that pharmacists should refuse to stock the abortifacient drug. Cardinal Camillo Ruini also said that the drug should be covered by the country's abort...

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News, As the morning-after pill went on sale in Italy yesterday, the president of the Italian bishops' conference reaffirmed the Church's position that pharmacists should refuse to stock the abortifacient drug. Cardinal Camillo Ruini also said that the drug should be covered by the country's a...

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USA vote could affect the rights of unborn children worldwide Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has stressed that the outcome of next Tuesday's presidential elections in the United States could have huge worldwide implications for the rights of unborn children. ...

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News, A study carried out for a British magazine has suggested that one in three women have been prescribed the [abortifacient] morning-after pill after having unprotected sex while drunk. The survey of 1,000 18- to 30-year-olds, which will be published in December's issue of Company magazine,...

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News, A study carried out for a British magazine has suggested that one in three women have been prescribed the [abortifacient] morning-after pill after having unprotected sex while drunk. The survey of 1,000 18- to 30-year-olds, which will be published in December's issue of Company magazine, fou...

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News, Members of the British House of Commons yesterday rejected by a margin of more than two to one a bill which would have authorised research on cloned human embryos. Dr Evan Harris, who acknowledged during his speech that a large number of people had written to their MPs opposing the measure, ...

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