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 measu...

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News, Cardinal Thomas Winning, archbishop of Glasgow, has written to every Scottish member of the British House of Commons on the subject of human cloning, ahead of today's vote on a bill which would legalise so-called therapeutic cloning. The cardinal wrote: "I would ask you to consider for a...

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SPUC vows to fight human cloning: battle starts today SPUC vows to fight human cloning: "battle starts today" Westminster, --As MPs today rejected Dr Evan Harris's bill to allow human cloning, John Smeaton, national director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said: "This is a ...

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News, Cardinal Thomas Winning, archbishop of Glasgow, has written to every Scottish member of the British House of Commons on the subject of human cloning, ahead of today's vote on a bill which would legalise so-called therapeutic cloning. The cardinal wrote: "I would ask you to consider for a mom...

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News, The health department in Zurich, Switzerland, has officially authorised assisted suicides in its care homes for the elderly. Active euthanasia remains illegal in Switzerland, but the removal of life-sustaining equipment or treatment is allowed and assisted suicides are tolerated. Suicide had...

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News, The health department in Zurich, Switzerland, has officially authorised assisted suicides in its care homes for the elderly. Active euthanasia remains illegal in Switzerland, but the removal of life-sustaining equipment or treatment is allowed and assisted suicides are tolerated. Suicide...

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News, A mother who pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the suicide of Nigel Goodman, her 42-year-old terminally ill son, has walked free from court. Judge Graham Boal gave Heather Pratten, aged 63, a conditional discharge for a year but warned that others might not be treated so leniently. N...

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News, A mother who pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the suicide of Nigel Goodman, her 42-year-old terminally ill son, has walked free from court. Judge Graham Boal gave Heather Pratten, aged 63, a conditional discharge for a year but warned that others might not be treated so leniently. Nigel...

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News, Professor Lord Robert Winston, the British fertility expert and in vitro fertilisation pioneer, has expressed his support for the reproductive cloning of human beings. In an interview with The Independent newspaper, Professor Winston said: "I can't see why people are feeling threatened by th...

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News, Professor Lord Robert Winston, the British fertility expert and in vitro fertilisation pioneer, has expressed his support for the reproductive cloning of human beings. In an interview with The Independent newspaper, Professor Winston said: "I can't see why people are feeling threatened b...

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Winston "misleading public" over human cloning Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) is warning Members of Parliament that Lord Winston, the fertility expert, is misleading the public over human cloning. In a memorandum to all MPs, John Smeaton, national director of...

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News, A British government minister has confirmed her support for research on stem cells extracted from cloned human embryos. In a written answer to a question tabled in the House of Commons, Ms Yvette Cooper, minister for public health, referred to the recent report of the chief medical offic...

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News, A British government minister has confirmed her support for research on stem cells extracted from cloned human embryos. In a written answer to a question tabled in the House of Commons, Ms Yvette Cooper, minister for public health, referred to the recent report of the chief medical officer's...

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News, Fertility experts have revealed a new procedure which they say could enable women who have passed the menopause or who have been rendered infertile by cancer to conceive using in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Dr Kutluk Oktay, assistant professor at Cornell University's Centre of Reproduction in...

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News, Fertility experts have revealed a new procedure which they say could enable women who have passed the menopause or who have been rendered infertile by cancer to conceive using in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Dr Kutluk Oktay, assistant professor at Cornell University's Centre of Reproductio...

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News, Researchers in England announced yesterday that a new and more thorough technique for screening test-tube babies before implantation had been developed. Professor Joy Delhanty and Dr Dagan Wells, both from University College London Medical School, said that the new procedure made it poss...

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New IVF screening technique "is offensive to all disabled people" Westminster, --The handicap division of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has highlighted the fundamental fallacy of claims that a new screening technique will improve survival chances for babies conceived using...

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News, Researchers in England announced yesterday that a new and more thorough technique for screening test-tube babies before implantation had been developed. Professor Joy Delhanty and Dr Dagan Wells, both from University College London Medical School, said that the new procedure made it possible...

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News, Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Birmingham, England, will urge Catholics attending Sunday Mass in his diocese next weekend to join the campaign against all forms of human cloning by writing to their members of parliament. Evan Harris, a Liberal Democrat MP, plans to introduce a 10-minute rule ...

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SPUC backs archbishop on cloning Westminster, --Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) is writing to every parish priest in Britain and Northern Ireland in support of Archbishop Nichols of Birmingham's recent pastoral letter against cloning. John Smeaton, SPUC national director, is enc...

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