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The battle over stem cells intensified throughout 2004 becoming a major issue in the US election won by Republican George Bush on 4 November. Much of the controversy centred around different views on the status of the human embryo, and the fact that embryos have to be created and destroyed...
In 1990, Winston and Handyside reported the first successful preg-nancies where the genetic status of the embryo had been ascertained before it was transferred to the mother's uterus.[1] The family had an X-linked mental disorder and 50% of male children would be affected. Doctors therefore placed only female embryos in...
(published: Telegraph 2004; 25 November, Guardian 2004; 25 November, bbc.co.uk 2002; 20 December)
The religious press predictably headlined it ‘Church backs cloning decision’[1] but the reality is more complex than that. What the headline boils down to is that the Board for Social Responsibility (BSR) of the Church of England threw its weight behind the recommendations of the House of Lord’s Select Committee...
There is no doubt that stem cell technology holds great promise for sufferers of degenerative conditions like diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, but the main issue addressed by the Lords’ Select Committee on Stem Cell Research was whether research on cloned human embryos was still necessary, given recent advances in...
