The BBC reports this morning on the launch of a new consultation by the HFEA (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority) into a new controversial fertility treatment which creates embryos from two women and one man to prevent life-threatening disorders.
In the News
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September 17th, 2012
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September 17th, 2012
Government is consulting on whether a technique which could prevent inherited diseases should be allowed
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September 17th, 2012
A public consultation has been launched to discuss the ethics of using three people to create one baby.
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September 17th, 2012
A campaigner who displayed graphic banners of aborted foetuses outside an abortion clinic in Brighton has been cleared of public order offences.
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September 17th, 2012
A campaigner who displayed graphic banners of aborted foetuses outside an abortion clinic in Brighton has been cleared of public order offences.
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September 17th, 2012
Andrew Stephenson and Kathryn Sloane displayed pictures of aborted foetuses outside clinic offering pregnancy terminations
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September 17th, 2012
More than seven out of ten MPs refuse to back calls to legalise assisted suicide, according to a new survey released today (See reports from Press Association, Telegraph and Conservative Home).
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September 15th, 2012
Using taxpayers’ money to fund projects run by religious or ethnic community groups is turning Britain into a divided society, the author of the report on the Oldham riots has warned.
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September 15th, 2012
The regulator has told the Upper Tribunal, sitting in London's Rolls Building, that allowing the charity to ban gay people from using its adoption service could have wider ramifications
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September 15th, 2012
There are more than 600,000 frozen embryos in high-tech storage across the United States - and for evangelical Christians that means there are more than half-a-million babies or orphans lying unwanted in test tubes.