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 and h...

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News, The English Court of Appeal has ruled that Jodie and Mary the Siamese twins should be separated. The decision by the three judges on the panel was unanimous and the ruling itself ran to more than 130 pages. Lord Justice Ward observed that Mary, the weaker twin, had been "living on borrowed t...

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Professor challenged over RU-486 "contraceptive" pill claims Glasgow, --The Scottish region of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC Scotland) has challenged Professor David Baird of Edinburgh University to come clean over his calls for the RU-486 abortion drug to be promoted as a ...

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News, The English Court of Appeal has ruled that Jodie and Mary the Siamese twins should be separated. The decision by the three judges on the panel was unanimous and the ruling itself ran to more than 130 pages. Lord Justice Ward observed that Mary, the weaker twin, had been "living on borrow...

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News, The English Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of separating Jodie and Mary, the Siamese twins, against the wishes of their parents. Any such operation would lead to the certain death of Mary. Lord Justice Alan Ward told reporters on his way into court that the decision had been "excruc...

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HFEA "shows lack of respect for human life" Westminster, - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has criticised the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) for its fundamental lack of respect for the value of human life, an attitude which corrodes and corrupts our soc...

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News, The English Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of separating Jodie and Mary, the Siamese twins, against the wishes of their parents. Any such operation would lead to the certain death of Mary. Lord Justice Alan Ward told reporters on his way into court that the decision had been "excruciati...

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News, Research carried out in England has suggested that what a mother eats between the time of her unborn child's conception and his or her implantation in the womb may have a long-term impact on the child's health. Professor Tom Fleming from Southampton University, whose findings have been publi...

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News, Research carried out in England has suggested that what a mother eats between the time of her unborn child's conception and his or her implantation in the womb may have a long-term impact on the child's health. Professor Tom Fleming from Southampton University, whose findings have been p...

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News, Italian scientists have revealed that adult neural stem cells have been found to be unexpectedly pliable and have been successfully converted into muscle tissue. Undeveloped brain stem cells naturally occurring in adult mice were re-programmed to behave like muscle cells by being placed ...

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News, Italian scientists have revealed that adult neural stem cells have been found to be unexpectedly pliable and have been successfully converted into muscle tissue. Undeveloped brain stem cells naturally occurring in adult mice were re-programmed to behave like muscle cells by being placed in c...

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Experts give activists ammunition for the pro-life fight Westminster, 18 September, 2000--Leading experts on bioethical issues briefed pro-life activists from all parts of the United Kingdom at the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children's national conference last weekend (15 to 17 September)....

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War hero commemorated in pro-life essay prize Westminster, 14 September, 2000--School and college students will win cash prizes in an essay competition in memory of a distinguished Second World War RAF fighter-pilot and pro-life activist. The Robin McNair Prize is jointly sponsored by the SPUC Educa...

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News, In what is seen as an unprecedented move, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Westminster and a pro-life group have been asked by the English Court of Appeal to make written submissions in the case of the Siamese twins Jodie and Mary. The twins' parents, who are opposing an application to s...

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News, In what is seen as an unprecedented move, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Westminster and a pro-life group have been asked by the English Court of Appeal to make written submissions in the case of the Siamese twins Jodie and Mary. The twins' parents, who are opposing an application to separ...

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News, New figures released by the office for national statistics in England and Wales have indicated that the number of girls becoming pregnant before their sixteenth birthday [the legal age of consent in the UK] rose significantly in the second quarter of 1999 to 8·6 per 1,000. The figure had pea...

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News, New figures released by the office for national statistics in England and Wales have indicated that the number of girls becoming pregnant before their sixteenth birthday [the legal age of consent in the UK] rose significantly in the second quarter of 1999 to 8·6 per 1,000. The figure had...

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News, A researcher has told the British Association's annual meeting in London that babies can detect language while still within the womb and begin to distinguish their mother's voice before they are born. Dr Todd Bailey, of Cardiff University in Wales, observed that newly born babies can rec...

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News, A researcher has told the British Association's annual meeting in London that babies can detect language while still within the womb and begin to distinguish their mother's voice before they are born. Dr Todd Bailey, of Cardiff University in Wales, observed that newly born babies can recogni...

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News, Cells which were taken from the brain of an aborted unborn baby and then modified to contain genes from a monkey virus are to be injected into the skulls of stroke victims as part of a British trial. Scientists announced at the British Association meeting last week that twelve patients with ...

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