the status of the embryo

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Protection Of Life During Pregnancy (Heads Of) Bill 2013 (22/05/2013)

The Irish Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children requested written submissions from interested individuals and groups in respect of its consideration of the Outline Heads of the Protection of...

Pursuing justice and community - hope for the unborn

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (triple helix - Christmas 2010)

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 1990 came into being with the primary objective of protecting the...

Embryo - a defense of human life

(triple helix - Christmas 2009)

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 successfully implanted and 'Noah' was born in January 2007, named because he survived the flood! The book begins with the intuition that it...

CMF Submission to DoH: HFE Act 2008 regulations (30/03/2009)

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...

Cardinal Keith O'Brien comments on the HFE Bill

Embryology bill delay criticised

Dr Peter Saunders on HFE Bill

HFE Bill Playlist

Thinking through... pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (nucleus - summer 2007)

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 previously heard Christians saying that pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)...