News, Christopher Reeve, Superman film actor, has called for the lifting of a US federal law banning government funding of research involving human embryos. Mr Reeve, who was paralysed after falling from a horse in 1995, said that all research should be funded and supervised by the federal governm...

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News, Christopher Reeve, Superman film actor, has called for the lifting of a US federal law banning government funding of research involving human embryos. Mr Reeve, who was paralysed after falling from a horse in 1995, said that all research should be funded and supervised by the federal gov...

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News, Concerns have been raised in Washington that US aid is still being used for coercive sterilisation programmes. Congress passed legislation in 1998 blocking US aid to overseas governments which force women to be sterilised, have abortions or use contraceptives, but Todd Tiahrt, the congre...

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News, Concerns have been raised in Washington that US aid is still being used for coercive sterilisation programmes. Congress passed legislation in 1998 blocking US aid to overseas governments which force women to be sterilised, have abortions or use contraceptives, but Todd Tiahrt, the congressma...

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News, An abortion practitioner in New York has been charged with the little known offence of abortion in the second degree after reportedly stabbing a woman with a syringe containing an abortion drug in an attempt to kill her unborn child. Stephen Pack, 44 and married with two children, is said to...

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News, An abortion practitioner in New York has been charged with the little known offence of abortion in the second degree after reportedly stabbing a woman with a syringe containing an abortion drug in an attempt to kill her unborn child. Stephen Pack, 44 and married with two children, is sai...

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News, The Japanese government is introducing legislation to legalise research into human cloning, albeit under 'strict conditions'. The first move to provide legal regulation for such research in Japan will include bans on both the implanting of a cloned human embryo inside a woman and the cre...

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News, The Japanese government is introducing legislation to legalise research into human cloning, albeit under 'strict conditions'. The first move to provide legal regulation for such research in Japan will include bans on both the implanting of a cloned human embryo inside a woman and the creatio...

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News, Today's UK parliamentary consideration of the Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill was inconclusive. MPs did not finish debating the first of five groups of new clauses and amendments. The Bill's report stage will resume on the fifth of next month, when it is in second place on ...

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News, Today's UK parliamentary consideration of the Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill was inconclusive. MPs did not finish debating the first of five groups of new clauses and amendments. The Bill's report stage will resume on the fifth of next month, when it is in second place...

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News, Professor Ian Wilmut, famous for creating Dolly the first cloned sheep, has added his voice to calls to allow so-called therapeutic cloning of embryos. Arguing that the potential medical benefits to people are vast, he said that the human embryo deserves respect, but only as a potential ...

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News, Professor Ian Wilmut, famous for creating Dolly the first cloned sheep, has added his voice to calls to allow so-called therapeutic cloning of embryos. Arguing that the potential medical benefits to people are vast, he said that the human embryo deserves respect, but only as a potential pers...

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News, A man who drove through a red traffic-light after drinking, and collided with a pregnant woman killing her unborn child of 36 weeks has walked free, sentenced only to 120 hours' community service. Magistrates in North Avon, UK, were advised that English law does not recognise the life of a c...

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News, A man who drove through a red traffic-light after drinking, and collided with a pregnant woman killing her unborn child of 36 weeks has walked free, sentenced only to 120 hours' community service. Magistrates in North Avon, UK, were advised that English law does not recognise the life of...

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News, Activists from SPUC and LIFE, two British pro-life organisations, joined forces last week to mount a lobby of Parliament in London. This was to protest against Government plans to allow intentional killing by neglect and also to support Ann Winterton's Medical Treatment (Prevention of Eu...

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News, Activists from SPUC and LIFE, two British pro-life organisations, joined forces last week to mount a lobby of Parliament in London. This was to protest against Government plans to allow intentional killing by neglect and also to support Ann Winterton's Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthan...

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News, President Clinton and Mr Tony Blair, the British prime minister, want the findings of the human genome project to be made freely available. The Celera company's project is said to be overtaking government- and charity-backed research. Celera shows its results to its drug company sponsors, wh...

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News, President Clinton and Mr Tony Blair, the British prime minister, want the findings of the human genome project to be made freely available. The Celera company's project is said to be overtaking government- and charity-backed research. Celera shows its results to its drug company sponsors...

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News, A high court judge has approved the withdrawal of life-support from a married father of three who has been in a persistent vegetative state for nearly four years. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss noted that the man (who cannot be named) had previously expressed the wish that he should not be ...

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News, A high court judge has approved the withdrawal of life-support from a married father of three who has been in a persistent vegetative state for nearly four years. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss noted that the man (who cannot be named) had previously expressed the wish that he should not be a bu...

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