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In the News

  • Sun: PM's embryo bill climbdown
    March 24th, 2008

    GORDON Brown may let Catholic colleagues vote AGAINST the explosive ?Frankenstein? embryos bill.

  • Guardian: A question of humanity
    March 24th, 2008

    Whatever Cardinal O'Brien may say, the embryology debate is a matter of concern for everyone, including atheists

  • Guardian: Johnson tries to defuse embryos bill crisis
    March 24th, 2008

    ? Catholic archbishop calls for free vote for MPs
    ? Dissenting ministers may be allowed to abstain

  • Guardian: Conscientious objections
    March 24th, 2008

    It is hardly surprising that the political temperature surrounding the human fertilisation and embryology bill should have risen over the weekend. Easter is, after all, a time of year for moral seriousness and a time when Christian leaders have the ear of the nation.

  • Guardian: Therapeutic cloning offers hope of treatment for Parkinson's
    March 24th, 2008

    Scientists have shown that stem cells produced by therapeutic cloning are effective for treating Parkinson's disease, in the first convincing demonstration that stem cells derived from the subject can be used to treat a serious disease.

  • Telegraph: Embryo Bill sparks Labour row with church
    March 24th, 2008

    The row over the Government's flagship Embryology Bill threatened to escalate into one of the most serious crises of Gordon Brown's premiership, as a war of words erupted between senior Labour figures and the Roman Catholic Church.

  • Telegraph: Embryo Bill is plank of Gordon Brown's agenda
    March 24th, 2008

    The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is a major plank of the Government's legislative programme.

  • Telegraph: Clone treatment may help find Parkinson's cure
    March 24th, 2008

    Scientists may soon be able to grow a patient's own brain tissue to repair damage caused by Parkinson's disease, according to a study that marks a milestone in efforts to find a cure.

  • Telegraph: Catholic Church proves serious irritant to PM
    March 24th, 2008

    The Roman Catholic Church has led the ethical opposition to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill since its inception - and, in doing so, has rediscovered its status as one of the country's most powerful political lobbying groups.

  • Independant: Parkinson's: the breakthrough
    March 24th, 2008

    A potential cure for Parkinson's disease has come a significant step closer today with a study showing that it is possible to treat the degenerative brain disorder with cells derived from cloned embryos ? a development condemned by the Roman Catholic Church.