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 r...

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News, Nurses are to provide the morning-after pill to women returning from holidays at Manchester airport in England. John Denham, government health minister, opened the airport's National Health Service drop-in centre yesterday. It is one of 36 such centres due to open around the country befo...

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News, Nurses are to provide the morning-after pill to women returning from holidays at Manchester airport in England. John Denham, government health minister, opened the airport's National Health Service drop-in centre yesterday. It is one of 36 such centres due to open around the country before t...

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News, The chairman of the authority which regulates in vitro fertilisation treatment in the UK has said that couples will only be allowed to select their child's sex using pre-implantation genetic diagnosis when a serious hereditary condition would be more likely to be passed on to one sex than th...

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News, The chairman of the authority which regulates in vitro fertilisation treatment in the UK has said that couples will only be allowed to select their child's sex using pre-implantation genetic diagnosis when a serious hereditary condition would be more likely to be passed on to one sex tha...

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News, Doctors in Spain have used pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to select only male babies to be implanted inside a woman with the purpose of ensuring that they could not pass on haemophilia. The children's father has haemophilia, a blood condition which the daughters of affected men...

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News, Doctors in Spain have used pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to select only male babies to be implanted inside a woman with the purpose of ensuring that they could not pass on haemophilia. The children's father has haemophilia, a blood condition which the daughters of affected men can...

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News, The director of the largest chain of abortion clinics in Britain has called for abortion to be accepted as an ordinary method of controlling fertility rather than as a problem or a failure. Ann Furedi, director of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which performs about 50,000 abortions ...

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News, The director of the largest chain of abortion clinics in Britain has called for abortion to be accepted as an ordinary method of controlling fertility rather than as a problem or a failure. Ann Furedi, director of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which performs about 50,000 aborti...

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News, The European Union's commissioner for research has confirmed that a 1998 European directive which prohibited the patenting of cloning technology applies to so-called therapeutic cloning as well as to reproductive cloning. Commissioner Philippe Busquin made his comments in a letter to Pet...

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News, The European Union's commissioner for research has confirmed that a 1998 European directive which prohibited the patenting of cloning technology applies to so-called therapeutic cloning as well as to reproductive cloning. Commissioner Philippe Busquin made his comments in a letter to Peter L...

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News, The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has denied claims that it plans to legalise abortion by way of the forthcoming Bill of Rights. The claims are made in a leaflet being distributed by the Precious Life group, but a spokesman for the Commission said: "...we have not even discussed t...

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News, The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has denied claims that it plans to legalise abortion by way of the forthcoming Bill of Rights. The claims are made in a leaflet being distributed by the Precious Life group, but a spokesman for the Commission said: "...we have not even discuss...

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Genetic testing by insurers could lead to "economic eugenics" Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has warned that discrimination by insurance companies on the basis of genetic screening will lead to fatal discrimination against unborn children. Adults might be ref...

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News, 80 percent of neuroscientists who responded to a British national newspaper survey said that unborn babies aborted after 11 weeks' gestation should receive pain relief during the procedure. The Daily Telegraph approached 100 neuroscientists, of whom 21 replied. The paper said that this m...

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News, 80 percent of neuroscientists who responded to a British national newspaper survey said that unborn babies aborted after 11 weeks' gestation should receive pain relief during the procedure. The Daily Telegraph approached 100 neuroscientists, of whom 21 replied. The paper said that this modes...

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News, The British government has announced plans to promote virginity among adolescents as part of its programme to reduce teenage pregnancies. The two million pound advertising campaign will include slogans such as "Sex - are you thinking about it enough?" John Smeaton, national director of the S...

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News, The British government has announced plans to promote virginity among adolescents as part of its programme to reduce teenage pregnancies. The two million pound advertising campaign will include slogans such as "Sex - are you thinking about it enough?" John Smeaton, national director of the ...

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Government's promotion of virginity a wolf in sheep's clothing Government's promotion of virginity a "wolf in sheep's clothing" Westminster, --The government's teenage pregnancy programme has been dubbed "a wolf in sheep's clothing" by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) in ...

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SPUC concerned at mixing of human and pig cells Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has reacted with concern to revelations that scientists have used the nuclear cell replacement technique used in cloning to mix human and pig cells. Greenpeace has revealed that, as part ...

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