Scientists will be allowed to create hybrid human-animal embryos after MPs overwhelmingly voted in favour of radical stem cell research.
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May 20th, 2008
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May 20th, 2008
For the first time since 1990, the House of Commons will today debate, and vote upon, abortion. Few issues arouse greater passions or raise more profound questions of morality.
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May 20th, 2008
Sir - I tend to judge the immorality of actions by the amount of suffering they cause.
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May 16th, 2008
Scientists from around the world express a note of caution on stem-cell therapy
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May 13th, 2008
Women will be able to terminate their pregnancy without having to obtain the signatures of two doctors in an overhaul of abortion laws.
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May 13th, 2008
Gordon Brown was accused last night of forcing through measures to liberalise embryo research as one of his most senior colleagues refused to support him in the Commons.
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May 13th, 2008
As the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is debated in the Commons, we wish to draw attention to two of its proposals that have been largely overlooked in the public debate, and which are urgently in need of amendment.
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May 13th, 2008
THE government was last night under pressure over its refusal to give a free vote on the controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
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May 13th, 2008
Lesbian couples should be blocked from having IVF treatment unless they agree that a father figure would be involved in the upbringing of their child, the Tories said yesterday.
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May 13th, 2008
A new poll shows the public think too little time is being assigned in parliament to discussing the HFE bill