\r A judge in the English High Court issued orders last Friday giving two hospitals in the north of England permission to withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration from two patients considered to be in permanent vegetative states. This follows the precedent set by the case of Tony Bland in 1993, s...

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News, A British couple are to ask doctors to select an embryo on the grounds of suitability for providing transplant tissue for their daughter who suffers from Fanconi anaemia. Mr and Mrs Damien Phillipson of Tyne and Wear are seeking the same type of procedure as the parents of Molly Nash, an...

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Pro-lifers dispute human rights decision Westminster, --Pro-life lobbyists have objected to today's high court decision to allow food and fluid to be withdrawn from two female patients in the north of England. Paul Tully, general secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said: ...

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News, A British couple are to ask doctors to select an embryo on the grounds of suitability for providing transplant tissue for their daughter who suffers from Fanconi anaemia. Mr and Mrs Damien Phillipson of Tyne and Wear are seeking the same type of procedure as the parents of Molly Nash, an Ame...

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News, Two leading fertility experts in the UK have said that they would like to apply for permission to employ the same technique used to create and select baby Adam Nash in a test-tube to be a stem cell donor for his sister. Adam was born recently in the United States after many of his test-tube ...

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News, Two leading fertility experts in the UK have said that they would like to apply for permission to employ the same technique used to create and select baby Adam Nash in a test-tube to be a stem cell donor for his sister. Adam was born recently in the United States after many of his test-t...

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News, The story covered in yesterday's digest of Adam Nash, the American baby who was conceived and selected using in vitro fertilisation techniques to be a bone marrow donor for his sister, has received considerable coverage in today's national press in Britain. The story provided the main he...

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News, The story covered in yesterday's digest of Adam Nash, the American baby who was conceived and selected using in vitro fertilisation techniques to be a bone marrow donor for his sister, has received considerable coverage in today's national press in Britain. The story provided the main headli...

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News, A British government spokesman has confirmed that the United Kingdom's department for international development provided 40 million pounds in aid for so-called reproductive health and family planning in 1999. Replying to a question in the House of Lords, Baroness Amos also confirmed that the...

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News, A British government spokesman has confirmed that the United Kingdom's department for international development provided 40 million pounds in aid for so-called reproductive health and family planning in 1999. Replying to a question in the House of Lords, Baroness Amos also confirmed that...

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News, The official solicitor in England plans to use the new Human Rights Act, which comes into force today, to argue against the withdrawal of feeding tubes from two brain-damaged patients. The Act gives certain aspects of the European Convention on Human Rights particular status in English l...

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News, The official solicitor in England plans to use the new Human Rights Act, which comes into force today, to argue against the withdrawal of feeding tubes from two brain-damaged patients. The Act gives certain aspects of the European Convention on Human Rights particular status in English law, ...

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News, RU486, the abortion drug, has been approved for use in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration will allow physicians to supply the drug, which can cause uterine cramping, heavy bleeding and nausea in mothers as well as killing their unborn children. National Right to Life claims ...

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News, RU486, the abortion drug, has been approved for use in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration will allow physicians to supply the drug, which can cause uterine cramping, heavy bleeding and nausea in mothers as well as killing their unborn children. National Right to Life cla...

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News, The number of recorded abortions in England and Wales declined by 2.2% from 1998 to 1999, with 13.6 terminations being carried out per 1,000 women aged 14 to 49. Government statistics released today state that, of the 183,250 abortions performed in England and Wales last year, 89% were p...

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News, The number of recorded abortions in England and Wales declined by 2.2% from 1998 to 1999, with 13.6 terminations being carried out per 1,000 women aged 14 to 49. Government statistics released today state that, of the 183,250 abortions performed in England and Wales last year, 89% were perfo...

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News, Researchers at two hospitals in London are developing a new test for genetic anomalies in unborn children which they say could provide a safer alternative to amniocentesis. The project at Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's hospitals is costing 98,000 pounds. Amniocentesis involves the inserti...

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News, Researchers at two hospitals in London are developing a new test for genetic anomalies in unborn children which they say could provide a safer alternative to amniocentesis. The project at Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's hospitals is costing 98,000 pounds. Amniocentesis involves the ins...

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News, A British academic and bioethicist has suggested that the technology used to clone Dolly the sheep could be used to enable male homosexual couples to conceive a child without the need for a woman's DNA. Dr Callum MacKellar, lecturer in bioethics and biochemistry at Edinburgh University a...

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Pro-lifers object to "GM babies" proposal Westminster, --Britain's leading pro-life lobby group has criticised proposals for the use of genetic techniques to generate human embryos from a woman's egg and two men's sperm. Paul Tully, general secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Child...

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