News, The British government has accepted the recommendation of the Donaldson Committee that human cloning should be permitted to advance stem cell research and the elimination of mitochondrial disease. The report of the committee headed by Professor Liam Donaldson, Britain's chief medical officer...

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News, The mayor of Mexico City has approved a proposal to liberalise the city's abortion laws. Under the new provisions, abortion would remain illegal in most cases but the range of exceptions would be expanded to include a threat to the health of the mother and the detection of serious foetal abn...

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News, The mayor of Mexico City has approved a proposal to liberalise the city's abortion laws. Under the new provisions, abortion would remain illegal in most cases but the range of exceptions would be expanded to include a threat to the health of the mother and the detection of serious foetal...

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News, The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) is denying that it has acknowledged a link between breast cancer and abortion. Yesterday's Mail on Sunday claimed that the college was alerting women to the danger through its website and would produce leaflets containing a sim...

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News, The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) is denying that it has acknowledged a link between breast cancer and abortion. Yesterday's Mail on Sunday claimed that the college was alerting women to the danger through its website and would produce leaflets containing a similar...

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News, The English High Court has given doctors permission to withdraw a ventilator from a 19-year-old man suffering from motor neurone disease. The man, referred to only as AK, developed the condition in 1998 and can now only communicate by blinking his left eye. AK is said to have told his family...

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News, The English High Court has given doctors permission to withdraw a ventilator from a 19-year-old man suffering from motor neurone disease. The man, referred to only as AK, developed the condition in 1998 and can now only communicate by blinking his left eye. AK is said to have told his fa...

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News, It has emerged that most members of the body which recently recommended that morning-after pills should be made available without prescription in the UK have financial interests in pharmaceutical companies. The Commission on the Safety of Medicines advised the Medicines Control Agency in...

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News, It has emerged that most members of the body which recently recommended that morning-after pills should be made available without prescription in the UK have financial interests in pharmaceutical companies. The Commission on the Safety of Medicines advised the Medicines Control Agency in fav...

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News, It has been reported that 122 girls under the age of sixteen have requested morning-after pills from pharmacists in Manchester, England, since the introduction of a pilot scheme there last December under which the drug is available without a doctor's prescription. 30 of the girls were only 1...

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News, It has been reported that 122 girls under the age of sixteen have requested morning-after pills from pharmacists in Manchester, England, since the introduction of a pilot scheme there last December under which the drug is available without a doctor's prescription. 30 of the girls were on...

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News, Al Gore has appointed Senator Joseph Lieberman, a man with similar pro-abortion views to himself, to serve as his vice-presidential running mate. During his three terms in the US Senate, Lieberman voted against the pro-life line in 69 out of 71 relevant votes, including on human cloning ...

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News, Al Gore has appointed Senator Joseph Lieberman, a man with similar pro-abortion views to himself, to serve as his vice-presidential running mate. During his three terms in the US Senate, Lieberman voted against the pro-life line in 69 out of 71 relevant votes, including on human cloning and ...

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News, A state in northern Mexico has voted to ban abortions in cases of rape. Legislators in the northern state of Guanajuato passed the ban, which will take effect from 1 October and carry a penalty of ten years in prison for abortion practitioners who ignore it. A statement issued by the legisla...

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News, A state in northern Mexico has voted to ban abortions in cases of rape. Legislators in the northern state of Guanajuato passed the ban, which will take effect from 1 October and carry a penalty of ten years in prison for abortion practitioners who ignore it. A statement issued by the leg...

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News, Following the demise in the current British parliamentary session of the Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill, its sponsor has vowed to re-introduce it when parliament resumes in November. Ann Winterton said: "... it has achieved a great deal in publicising the issue and has...

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News, Following the demise in the current British parliamentary session of the Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill, its sponsor has vowed to re-introduce it when parliament resumes in November. Ann Winterton said: "... it has achieved a great deal in publicising the issue and has sen...

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News, An expert in cloning technology has warned of potential health risks associated with transplanting tissue generated by so-called therapeutic cloning. Dr Lorraine Young, of the Roslin Institute, revealed that 80 percent of cloned animals have abnormally high birthweights. She observed that "t...

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News, An expert in cloning technology has warned of potential health risks associated with transplanting tissue generated by so-called therapeutic cloning. Dr Lorraine Young, of the Roslin Institute, revealed that 80 percent of cloned animals have abnormally high birthweights. She observed tha...

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News, The Republican party's national convention in Philadelphia yesterday approved the policy statement, or platform, which includes calls for a total ban on abortion and a pro-life amendment to the US constitution. It had been thought that opponents of the platform might force a public debat...

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