News, The Italian city of Niscemi in Sicily is offering subsidies to pregnant women in financial difficulties as part of an initiative to reduce the number of abortions. The city's Window for Infancy programme allocates 6000 US dollars to every woman who refuses an abortion, as well as providing a...

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News, The Italian city of Niscemi in Sicily is offering subsidies to pregnant women in financial difficulties as part of an initiative to reduce the number of abortions. The city's Window for Infancy programme allocates 6000 US dollars to every woman who refuses an abortion, as well as providi...

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News, The co-creator of Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, has supported research into so-called therapeutic cloning of humans and has criticised the more cautious approach of the Prince of Wales. Professor Ian Wilmut, addressing a Royal Society of Edinburgh conference, said, "We recognise...

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News, The co-creator of Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, has supported research into so-called therapeutic cloning of humans and has criticised the more cautious approach of the Prince of Wales. Professor Ian Wilmut, addressing a Royal Society of Edinburgh conference, said, "We recognise thi...

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News, A new study has demonstrated that it may not be necessary to use cloned human embryos in order to produce cells and tissues for transplants. The research, carried out by Dr Jonas Frisen and his team at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and published in the journal Science, suggests that...

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News, A new study has demonstrated that it may not be necessary to use cloned human embryos in order to produce cells and tissues for transplants. The research, carried out by Dr Jonas Frisen and his team at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and published in the journal Science, suggests ...

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News, An appeal court in Germany has allowed pro-life campaigners to liken abortion to the Nazi holocaust. The authorities at a hospital in Nuremberg where abortions are performed had originally won a court ruling preventing protesters from distributing leaflets which described abortion as mur...

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News, An appeal court in Germany has allowed pro-life campaigners to liken abortion to the Nazi holocaust. The authorities at a hospital in Nuremberg where abortions are performed had originally won a court ruling preventing protesters from distributing leaflets which described abortion as murder ...

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News, A computer error has meant that 154 pregnant women in the UK were told that there was a lower risk of their unborn babies having Down's syndrome than was actually the case. The women, whose routine pre-natal checks were analysed at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, are now between ...

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News, A computer error has meant that 154 pregnant women in the UK were told that there was a lower risk of their unborn babies having Down's syndrome than was actually the case. The women, whose routine pre-natal checks were analysed at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, are now betw...

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News, A narrow majority of people in the UK disapprove of abortion if it is simply because a couple do not want more children or if the woman is unmarried. The opinion poll commissioned by the BBC also showed that 92 percent supported abortion if the mother's life were at risk, and that 65 per...

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News, A narrow majority of people in the UK disapprove of abortion if it is simply because a couple do not want more children or if the woman is unmarried. The opinion poll commissioned by the BBC also showed that 92 percent supported abortion if the mother's life were at risk, and that 65 percent...

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News, The European Union's patent office has rejected a patent for a mixture of lethal substances for euthanasia. Michigan State University had applied for a patent for what was officially called its euthanasia cocktail and refused to remove the specification for the administering of the substance...

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News, The European Union's patent office has rejected a patent for a mixture of lethal substances for euthanasia. Michigan State University had applied for a patent for what was officially called its euthanasia cocktail and refused to remove the specification for the administering of the subst...

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News, The Irish committee currently looking into the issue of abortion has been told that adoption should be strongly promoted as an alternative to abortion. Professor Patricia Casey, a psychiatrist, and Ms Breda O'Brien, a teacher and journalist, urged the Oireachtas Committee on the Constitu...

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News, The Irish committee currently looking into the issue of abortion has been told that adoption should be strongly promoted as an alternative to abortion. Professor Patricia Casey, a psychiatrist, and Ms Breda O'Brien, a teacher and journalist, urged the Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution...

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News, The communications director of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service [the UK's largest abortion provider] has strongly supported moves to make progestogen morning-after pills available over the counter without prescription. Ann Furedi argued that the pills are safer than aspirin or paraceta...

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News, The communications director of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service [the UK's largest abortion provider] has strongly supported moves to make progestogen morning-after pills available over the counter without prescription. Ann Furedi argued that the pills are safer than aspirin or para...

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News, The bill currently before the Dutch parliament which would formally legalise euthanasia includes a clause giving children as young as 12 the right to elect for euthanasia even against the wishes of their parents. Edward Stourton, a prominent British journalist and broadcaster, has drawn ...

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News, The bill currently before the Dutch parliament which would formally legalise euthanasia includes a clause giving children as young as 12 the right to elect for euthanasia even against the wishes of their parents. Edward Stourton, a prominent British journalist and broadcaster, has drawn atte...

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