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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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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ARI, Italy, JAN. 26, 2005 .- Italian bishops expressed their opposition to a referendum that seeks to alter four aspects of the law on assisted fertilization, assailing the proposal as an attack on ...
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Scientists win approval for controversial research from the fertility and embryo research watchdog
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British regulators will decide on  Wednesday whether to permit the creation of hybrid human-animal  embryos for research into illnesses such as Parkinson&#39;s, Motor  Neurone Disease and Alzheimer&#39;s.
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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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U.N. members on both sides of the bitterly divisive debate over human cloning will try to agree Monday on a declaration urging countries to adopt legislation banning attempts to create human life.
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The Maltese Church said a law regulating assisted reproductive technology should be passed in Malta.
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Abortion is becoming commonplace and people are insufficiently troubled about terminating pregnancies, the Archbishop of Canterbury said on Sunday.
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LONDON, Sep 2 (IPS) - The London conference on reproductive health  concluded Thursday with a resolution backing the right to  abortion.
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Embryonic stem cells are contaminated with an animal molecule, meaning they could not be used to treat humans, say researchers.
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PHILADELPHIA _ When the subject is stem cell research, the term embryo is not only ethically charged, but increasingly hard to define.  Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have stretched the definition even further.
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Scientists may be allowed to clone embryos from donated tissues without the need for "express" consent.
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Two scientists have asked Harvard University's ethical review board for permission to produce cloned human embryos for disease research.
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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy -- Pope John Paul II warned in a statement released Sunday that humanity&#39;s speedy progress in science and technology risks overlooking moral values, citing with particular concern experiments in human cloning.
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The French Roman Catholic Church has called a telethonÂs financing of research on embryonic stem cells immoral.
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Pope Benedict said on Thursday  that embryonic stem cell research, artificial insemination and  the prospect of human cloning had "shattered" human dignity.