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New 'three-parent' IVF techniques have been developed which researchers claim could enable women to avoid passing mitochondrial diseases on to their children. Mitochondrial disease is unusual in that it is transmitted through DNA in the mitochondria (cell 'powerhouses') in the cell cytoplasm rather than through DNA in the cell nucleus....
A Christian Perspective Rosemary Morgan Bible Reading Fellowship, 2013 £7.99 Pb 144pp ISBN 9780857460837 The key to this book is, unsurprisingly, in its title. Having read several books on infertility that focused on treatments and options available, and the rights and wrongs of each, I was half expecting the...
Philippa Taylor assesses the costs of screening for Down's. In 1992 it was predicted that no more than 60% of all women would take up antenatal screening for Down's syndrome and, with more older mothers giving birth, there would be an increase in the number of affected births. (1) How...
Time for private abortion providers to be accountable Review by Philippa Taylor CMF Head of Public Policy A Government consultation on the collection of national statistics on abortion may seem like a dry and uncontroversial topic. However, it has provided CMF with an opportunity to highlight an...
Meditations on the Silent Grief of Miscarriage Shawn T Collins Quill House Press, 2012 $11.00 (no UK price given) Pb 100pp ISBN 978-1-933794-58-7 Miscarriage is unexpected before it happens, frequently unexplainable when it occurs and rarely discussed afterwards. Yet there can be little worse than losing...
