As the UK's first baby conceived from a 'flash frozen' egg is born, health corresponent Laura Donnelly looks at the revolutionary treatment that is giving hope to a growing number of women who want to postpone having a child - and the drawbacks for those trying to slow their biological clock
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April 10th, 2011
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April 10th, 2011The women they treated had life-threatening infections and puncture wounds. In some cases they even still had foetal parts trapped inside them when they arrived at hospitals in dire need of emergency care.
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April 9th, 2011A woman allowed her 90-year-old mother to kill herself because the pensioner could not bear the thought of dementia destroying her final years.
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April 8th, 2011Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Brussels has been hit in the face with a number of custard pies by activists who oppose what he has to say about homosexuality. He appears to have something of a reputation for expressions of ‘homophobia', which many may simply term orthodox Catholicism, not to say orthodox Christian sexual morality.
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April 8th, 2011Staff at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) could strike later this month over plans which would 'effectively close the commission ending most of its advice services to the public and communities', the Public and Commercial Services union say
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April 8th, 2011A couple who gave up a child that was not biologically theirs following a fertility clinic error is now expecting twins this August with the help of a surrogate mother.
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April 8th, 2011I have received some very tragic news that Asia Bibi the emblem of the recent surge in awareness of our freedom movement, is now suffering from a debilitating illness.
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April 8th, 2011A prominent Italian historian has claimed that the Roman Empire collapsed because a "contagion of homosexuality and effeminacy" made it easy pickings for barbarian hordes, sparking a furious row.
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April 8th, 2011STRASBOURG, April 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Natural marriage and the family are facing yet another attack through the European Court of Human Rights, which has agreed to hear a case next week on homosexual adoption in France.
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April 7th, 2011She will grow up to call her Auntie Emma. But an extraordinary rearrangement of Chris and Sandra Barlow’s family tree means that Emma Vaughan is actually baby Maia Barlow’s mother.