reproductive technology
Reproductive technology is advancing and presenting new ways to create children. Is all reproductive technology ethical? Does the Christian have anything new and fresh to say?
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Submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on donor conception - 16/5/2012
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics issued a consultation on donor conception and whether parents of people conceived using donor eggs or sperm should choose to tell them about their genetic origins. Should it be a private family matter, or are there wider public and ethical interests at stake? What kind of information, including medical, might...cmf file 47 (2012) - surrogacy (CMF files)
In the rapidly expanding world of surrogacy births, stories abound of disputes over determining paternity, questioning maternity, exploited mothers and stateless children. A quick Google search on the internet reveals baby-selling packages, business deals and as much help as would-be parents need...
Fertility and gender (triple helix - winter 2011)
Issues in reproductive and sexual ethics Edited by Helen Watt Oxford - Anscombe Bioethics Centre 2011-08-27 £15.95 Pb 220pp ISBN 978 0 906561 12 6 - This book contains the proceedings of an international conference 'Fertility, Infertility and Gender' held in Maynooth, Ireland in 2010 by the Linacre...
Welsh morning-after pill scheme (triple helix - summer 2011)
- Since April this year (1) the 'morning-after pill' has been available free from pharmacies across Wales, while still costing about £25 in the rest of the UK. Over 700 high street pharmacies can now provide it, even to girls as young as 13, without consent from a parent or guardian. But research...
Peter Saunders blogs on 'three parent' embryos
15/4/2010
The papers this morning (15 April) are full of reports that researchers at Newcastle University have successfully produced 'three parent' embryos as a first step to preventing maternally transmitted mitochondrial disease. There are about 50 different known mitochondrial diseases which are passed on in genes coded by mitochondrial (as opposed to...
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restoration of female fertility a possibility? (nucleus - summer 2009)
Research by scientists in China has suggested that the ovaries of female mice contain stem cells capable of growing into eggs that can be fertilised to produce healthy offspring. The report in Nature Cell Biology states that female germline stem cells were isolated from mouse ovaries and grown in...
CMF Submission to DoH: HFE Act 2008 regulations - 30/3/2009
Submission from the Christian Medical Fellowship to the Department of Health Consultation on - Four sets of regulations required to implement provisions in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 - March 2009 - 1. Christian Medical Fellowship - The Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) is an interdenominational organisation, founded in 1949,...Ten years of Viagra (triple helix - winter 2008)
Roxana Whelan on dilemmas of men's sexual health. - A man has a quick consultation. You deal with the problem and hand over a prescription but he hovers. 'Actually there's something else, doctor… err, I'm seeing this lady and, well, I'm having problems. I was wondering, err, you know those...
Who am I? Experiences of Donor Conception (triple helix - winter 2008)
Alexina McWhinnie Idreos Education Trust 2006 £6.95 pb; 66pp ASBN 09554031 0 3 - Joanne, Christine and Louise were all conceived following donor insemination (DI) Having been aware early in life of this, Joanne experiences increasing 'genetic bewilderment'. Christine's domineering mother used this...
Should baby be risked for sister?
6/8/2008
(published: BBC News: 5 August 2008)
Catherine is a little girl condemned by genetic disease to a gruelling regime of treatment. She could be released from it by a sibling, but the sibling is not yet conceived ...
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