Britain moves a step closer to allowing three-parent babies
Britain has moved a step closer to becoming the first country in the world to legalise technologies that would lead to the creation of “designer babies” after a state regulatory agency declared that...
View ArticleIn the three-parent embryo debate, why is it assumed that scientists are...
When I sat down to listen to the BBC’s five o’clock news programme on the radio yesterday, for a fleeting minute, as the broadcaster introduced the item about the Commons vote on “three-parent babies”,...
View ArticleBioethics centre says Britain moving toward genetically modified babies
A Catholic bioethics institute has accused the British government of moving toward the creation of genetically modified babies after scientists were given permission to alter the DNA of embryos in...
View ArticleAlmost 2.5 million human embryos destroyed during IVF in Britain since 1990
Almost 2.5 million embryos have been deliberately destroyed in the United Kingdom since 1990. According to statistics from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, since the passing of the...
View ArticleUK pro-life groups express alarm over three-parent baby plans
The creation of babies made from two women and one man has been approved by the UK’s fertility regulator, prompting condemnation from pro-life campaign groups. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology...
View ArticleFirst license to create ‘three-parent baby’ is granted in Britain
Doctors in Newcastle have been granted the first UK licence to create embryos from two women and one man in an effort to prevent babies dying from genetic diseases. The first child could be born as...
View ArticleWill anyone rein in the IVF industry?
Fertility clinics love to line their walls with photographs of beautiful newborn babies, their “success stories”. IVF has enabled babies to be born to many couples who would not otherwise have been...
View ArticleBritain moves a step closer to allowing three-parent babies
Britain has moved a step closer to becoming the first country in the world to legalise technologies that would lead to the creation of “designer babies” after a state regulatory agency declared that...
View ArticleIn the three-parent embryo debate, why is it assumed that scientists are...
When I sat down to listen to the BBC’s five o’clock news programme on the radio yesterday, for a fleeting minute, as the broadcaster introduced the item about the Commons vote on “three-parent...
View ArticleBioethics centre says Britain moving toward genetically modified babies
A Catholic bioethics institute has accused the British government of moving toward the creation of genetically modified babies after scientists were given permission to alter the DNA of embryos in...
View ArticleAlmost 2.5 million human embryos destroyed during IVF in Britain since 1990
Almost 2.5 million embryos have been deliberately destroyed in the United Kingdom since 1990. According to statistics from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, since the passing of the...
View ArticleUK pro-life groups express alarm over three-parent baby plans
The creation of babies made from two women and one man has been approved by the UK’s fertility regulator, prompting condemnation from pro-life campaign groups. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology...
View ArticleFirst license to create ‘three-parent baby’ is granted in Britain
Doctors in Newcastle have been granted the first UK licence to create embryos from two women and one man in an effort to prevent babies dying from genetic diseases. The first child could be born as...
View ArticleWill anyone rein in the IVF industry?
Fertility clinics love to line their walls with photographs of beautiful newborn babies, their “success stories”. IVF has enabled babies to be born to many couples who would not otherwise have been...
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