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  • Independant: Brown softens stance on cloning to head off MPs' revolt
    March 24th, 2008

    Gordon Brown is preparing a partial retreat over the Government's plans to permit more embryo research by allowing some Labour MPs to vote against the move.

  • BBC: Peer and Church clash on embryos
    March 24th, 2008

    A Labour peer has accused the leader of Scotland's Catholic Church of misleading the public over the government's embryo research proposals.

  • BBC: MP calls for meeting over embryos
    March 24th, 2008

    A Labour MP has written to Scotland's leading Roman Catholic hoping to arrange a meeting between the Church and scientists over embryo research.

  • BBC: In quotes: The ethics of embryos
    March 24th, 2008

    The government says an "accommodation" will be reached with Labour MPs opposed to a controversial bill which would allow animal-human embryos to be created for scientific research.

  • BBC: Embryo row dominates the papers
    March 24th, 2008

    The row over government legislation that would allow scientific research into human-animal "hybrid" embryos dominates Monday's papers.

  • Mail: A moral issue and a cheap compromise
    March 23rd, 2008

    One of the first pledges made by Gordon Brown when he became prime minister was to restore the position of Parliament as the crucible of national debate.

  • Mail: If this monstrous Bill is not a matter for MPs, then what is?
    March 23rd, 2008

    With all the difficulties facing the Prime Minister, you'd think that he would be making every possible effort to avoid any further elephant traps. But no - having unaccountably constructed one for himself, he has not only fallen in but is refusing to haul himself out.

  • Mail: IVF mother sues doctors... because she gave birth to a boy instead of a girl
    March 23rd, 2008

    A woman who discarded male IVF embryos in an attempt to prevent a life-threatening disorder being passed on to her child is suing after giving birth to a boy.

  • Times: The immorality of a quick buck
    March 23rd, 2008

    This is the first time that the great festival of Easter is being separated from the early spring holiday in some parts of the country. For some it is of no consequence. There is plenty of opportunity for those who wish to celebrate the Christian festival and why should everyone else be inconvenienced by the awkwardness of the date of Easter?

  • Times: 'Iron fist' Gordon Brown faces revolt
    March 23rd, 2008

    Gordon Brown yesterday faced an unprecedented challenge to his authority as he came under new pressure to cave in over controversial embryo research legislation.