Animal-human embryos need human rights, bishops say
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Hybrid animal-human embryos created for  medical research should be viewed as human and permitted to  develop into children, Roman Catholic bishops have urged the  British parliament.
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Harvard University scientists have asked the university's ethical review board for permission to produce cloned human embryos for disease research, potentially becoming the first researchers in the nation to wade into a divisive area of study that has become a presidential campaign issue.
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The Vatican, in its first speech ever to the U.N. General Assembly, called Wednesday for a total ban on human cloning and criticized the war in Iraq and unilateral responses to terrorism.
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Making human-animal embryos for  scientific experiments should be allowed because of the  benefits to science and medicine, British experts said in a  report released for Sunday.
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Pig embryos could provide sources of  new organ and tissue transplants for people, and they may pose  fewer risks than using material from adult animals, Israeli  researchers reported on Monday.
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The harvesting of stem cells from  human embryos will continue to be funded by the EU, the  incoming European Union research chief said on Friday, vowing  to keep an open mind while taking ethical views into account.
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Science & environment: Scientists create human embryos in procedure to try to fight serious inherited diseases
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A Roman Catholic church buried the ashes of hundreds of aborted fetuses Sunday, a day after the 32nd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal, drawing criticism that the church was exploiting women's grief to make a political statement.
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Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday defended the Vatican's right to speak out on bioethics, including its opposition to artificial procreation methods and embryonic stem cell research.
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Reproduction experts in Chicago might have an elegant solution to the explosive moral dilemma posed by embryonic stem-cell research. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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In the panoply of human rights, it isn&#39;t the first to trip off the tongue. But more than 150 delegates at an international conference yesterday urged that it should be.
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The highly contentious issue of cloning is back on the U.N. agenda, with support among member states for a treaty banning human cloning but divisions over the use of human embryos for medical research.
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The Vatican on Friday condemned  the cloning of human embryos, calling it the "worst type of  exploitation of the human being."
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Britain staunchly defended the right to use human embryos for medical research while the Vatican backed a complete ban on human cloning as U.N. members Thursday began two days of debate on the highly contentious issue.
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The announcement that British scientists have created an embryo containing the DNA of three people has bioethicists scratching their heads.
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Catholic church leaders urge women to look at alternatives to termination, as the Abortion Act's 40th anniversary approaches.
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Britain&#39;s leading scientists today urge the United Nations to ban cloning of babies but leave open the door for cloning of embryo stem cells as treatments for so-far incurable illnesses.