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With 4.1million members in England and Wales, a quarter of whom attend Mass
each Sunday, the Roman Catholic Church has proved a vocal and effective
opposition to Labour in recent years.
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An Irish woman has lost her bid in the Supreme Court to have her frozen embryos, left over from her previous in vitro fertilization treatments, implanted in her womb. Despite the Irish constitutional guarantee for the right to life “from conception,” the Supreme Court ruled that the three embryos cannot be implanted against the wishes of the woman’s estranged husband, reports Hilary White, LifeSiteNews.com. Mary and Thomas Roche underwent IVF treatment in 2001.
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By Hilary WhiteDUBLIN, December 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Irish woman has lost her bid in the Supreme Court to have her frozen embryos, left over from her previous in vitro fertilization treatments, implanted in her womb. Despite the Irish constitutional guarantee for the right to life…
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By Hilary WhiteDUBLIN, December 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Irish woman has lost her bid in the Supreme Court to have her frozen embryos, left over from her previous in vitro fertilization treatments, implanted in her womb. Despite the Irish constitutional guarantee for the right to life…
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — President Barack Obama has established a new presidential bioethics council that may feature advisors who could push his decision to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research even further. They could advise Obama that his administration should push human cloning.
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Rome, Italy, Nov 22, 2009 / 06:05 pm (CNA).-
The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, said this week that the work by two scientists has shown adult stem cells to be much more promising for medical treatment than embryonic stem cells. The use of adult stem cells poses no ethical difficulties and has already contributed to advancing treatments for degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s.
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LINCOLN, Neb. — In an unusual pushback against President Obama’s expansion of federal financing of human embryonic stem cell research, the University of Nebraska is considering restricting its stem cell experiments to cell lines approved by President George W. Bush.
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — Advanced Cell Technology is at it again. The human cloning company that thrives on overstated press releases that capture the media’s attention and temporarily drive up its stock prices is announcing yet another attempt at launching a trial with patients receiving injections of embryonic stem cells.
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Lincoln, NE (LifeNews.com) — A Nebraska group delivered almost 7,000 petitions from state residents opposing the expansion of embryonic stem cell research. The Nebraska Coalition for Ethical Research delivered the petitions to University of Nebraska Board of Regents.
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Posted on Nov 13, 2009 | by Staff WASHINGTON (BP)–California's stem cell program has awarded $230 million primarily to non-embryonic research, in the process implicitly admitting embryonic experimen…
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By Hilary WhiteROME, November 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – If an embryo is human, it is a person – this is the golden rule for bioethics if it wants to uphold the full dignity of the human person, said the secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) on Tuesday….
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Pierre, SD (LifeNews.com) — A new grassroots organization has sprung up that would urge voters to reject a statewide ballot measure next year that would force taxpayers to pay for embryonic stem cell research and human cloning. That is the research that has yet to provide any cures for patients and has had problems in animal studies.
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Researchers announced a scientific breakthrough yesterday in which the progenitor cells to human ova and sperm have been created out of embryonic stem cells. Pro-life commentators have responded to the news by highlighting the massive ethical pitfalls involved in the technology: not only does the process result in the death of embryos, but it potentially leaves both men and women, as well as natural sexual relations, out of the human reproductive picture, reports Hilary White, LifeSiteNews.com…. >>
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FULLERTON, Calif., Oct. 28 /Christian Newswire/ — To raise awareness about the relatively new process of human embryo donation and adoption, the one-stop informational Web site EmbryoAdoption.org launched three new Web videos.
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Catholic moral theologians have raised concerns after news broke that scientists here have become the first to “semi-clone” an animal by fertilizing an egg with an embryonic stem cell that mimics sperm. (more…)
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — President Barack Obama issued an executive order this year to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research that destroys human life. Now that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued the guidelines to implement that decision, a pro-cloning member of Congress wants to open the door further.
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Albany, N.Y., Oct 15, 2009 / 06:18 am (CNA).- A pro-life feminist group has filed suit to block the use of New York state taxpayer funds to pay women recruited to donate their eggs for embryonic stem cell research.
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A California couple has sued a San Francisco fertility clinic for destroying embryos after it inseminated the wife’s eggs with the wrong man’s sperm.
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There is no moral concern regarding cloning human beings since human embryos, which develop into a baby, are “only a handful of cells,” argued President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.
“If scientists will be using and cloning embryos only at a very early stage when they are just a handful of cells (say, before they are four days old), there is no good reason for a ban (on cloning),” wrote Sunstein, who was confirmed by the Senate last week as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
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The Virgina-based American Life League today will announce a petition drive for the proposed “Personhood Amendment” to the Florida Constitution.
It would define a “person” as being in existence from “the beginning of the biological development.”