The number of abortions among girls aged under 16 rose by 10% to 4,376 in 2007, official figures for England and Wales show.
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June 19th, 2008
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June 19th, 2008
Hardline Church leaders have formally declared the end of the worldwide Anglican Communion, saying they can no longer be associated with liberals who tolerate homosexual clergy.
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June 19th, 2008
On June 16, 2008, UNHRC president Doru Romulus Costea announced that criticism of Sharia law will not be tolerated by the UNHRC, based on the complaints and pressure by Islamist delegates to the UNHRC.
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June 18th, 2008
A cancer patient has made a full recovery after being injected with billions of his own immune cells in the first case of its kind, doctors have disclosed.
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June 18th, 2008
Scientists claim they have cured advanced skin cancer for the first time using the patient's own cells cloned outside the body.
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June 18th, 2008
Unmarried couples in Northern Ireland will be allowed to jointly adopt children following a ruling announced by Law Lords.
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June 18th, 2008
Biological alchemy has been used to convert one cell type into another kind that could be used to repair a body damaged by accident or disease, marking a new approach to regenerative medicine that does away with the use of stem cells and embryos.
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June 17th, 2008
The new vitrification method of egg freezing promises to resolve one of the biggest inequalities in assisted reproduction: the paucity of options available to women seeking to preserve their fertility when compared with men.
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June 16th, 2008
A rector faces the sack after becoming the first clergyman to conduct a gay 'marriage' in an Anglican church.
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June 16th, 2008
Sexual health clinics are to be opened in secondary schools to hand out contraception and help arrange abortions.