the status of the embryo
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The status of the embryo is core to many specific ethical questions and the implications are far reaching. Christians take different views. Items listed here explore some of these views.
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Pursuing justice and community - hope for the unborn
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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (triple helix - winter 2010)
HFEA to join the bonfire of the quangos? - After 19 years of controversial existence there is a real possibility that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) will be axed. It has rarely been remembered during two decades of relentless embryo destruction that the original HFE Act...
Embryo - a defense of human life (triple helix - winter 2009)
- Robert P George and Christopher Tollefsen Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, USA 2008 - $23.95 (USA) - Hb 242pp - ISBN 978 0 38552 282 3 - - The book opens with the attempt to rescue some IVF embryos from being destroyed in the flood caused by Hurricane Katrina. One embryo rescued that day was...
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,...Cardinal Keith O'Brien comments on the HFE Bill
29/10/2008
An open letter to Gordon Brown from Cardinal Keith O'Brien, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, has had wide coverage in the media: STV News.Scotsman The Press Assocation BBC The Telegraph The Herald Independent Catholic News
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Embryology bill delay criticised
10/7/2008
(published: BBC Online, 10 July 2008)
Anti-abortion MPs have criticised the decision to postpone debate on the controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill for three months.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7499959.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7499959.stm
Dr Peter Saunders on HFE Bill
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Duration: 3 mins
HFE Bill Playlist
20/2/2008
A collection of TV and Radio interviews regarding embryo research, abortion and the HFE Bill currently making its way through Parliament.
http://www.ccfon.org/mediacentre.php?avid=34&avap=1
http://www.ccfon.org/mediacentre.php?avid=34&avap=1
4. 'Saviour siblings' -
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill 2007-8 Briefings from the Christian Medical Fellowship - Background - IVF and PGD together now allow selection of an embryo that will have the potential of growing into an ideal tissue donor for an existing person - a so-called 'saviour sibling'. The Bill sanctions...
Thinking through... pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (nucleus - summer 2007)
Not content with 'textbook' answers, Paul Barker explored it for himself - To be quite honest, I began looking at this topic of the genetic testing of embryos in a biased way. I hoped to find a way in which these amazing developments in biotechnology could fit in with my Christian faith. I...