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June 18, 2010
Summer of Life campaign to protect the human embryo
For the past ten years, there has been a consistent and powerful push to have embryo research legalized in Ireland. Mary Harney - in her various ministerial roles - has voted to fund embryonic stem cell research in the EU and has appointed supporters of embryo research to key influential positions.
Posted By: Life InstituteCategory: Bio-Ethics
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June 18, 2010
New Adult Stem-Cell Treatments for Head and Heart Advance
New reports indicate that real hope for 'miracle' treatments using adult stem cells is on the way for those suffering from diseases afflicting both the brain and the heart.
Posted By: LifesitenewsCategory: Bio-Ethics
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May 14, 2010
UCC ethics board has already granted permission to one hESC project
Information obtained by pro-life activists under the Freedom of Information Act shows that the UCC Research Ethics Board (UREB) has granted approval for the importation of human embryonic stem cell lines for a research project. In a letter to the unnamed researcher the then Chair of the UREB, Dr...
Posted By: Youth DefenceCategory: Bio-Ethics
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May 12, 2010
STOP SPIN ON STEM CELLS: The Life Institute asks the Sunday Times to give true picture
The Life Institute has said that it is time for the media to "stop the spin and stick to the facts" when discussing stem cell research. Dr Sean O Domhnaill said that reporting on stem cells tended to be "factually incorrect, incomplete and agenda-driven" and that journalists and editors had a...
Posted By: Life InstituteCategory: Bio-Ethics
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May 12, 2010
Stem Cell Secrecy: Life Institute says pro-embryo research foundation won’t reveal funding sources?
The Irish Stem Cell Foundation (ISCF) stands accused by the Life Institute of “acting in a strangely secretive fashion” in relation to the source of its funding. Niamh Uí Bhriain of the Institute said that the source of the ISCF’s funding remained unclear and that the Foundation has refused to...
Posted By: Life InstituteCategory: Bio-Ethics
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April 11, 2010
Ethical stem cell research continues to provide results
The Irish Times reports that "patients in the west of Ireland who suffer from the chronic inflammatory condition, Crohn's disease, will have the opportunity to take part in a cutting-edge clinical trial involving stem cell therapy later this year."
Posted By: Youth DefenceCategory: Bio-Ethics
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February 26, 2010
IVF: conference hears of health problems
The Irish Times has reported that researchers are now studying the reasons why some children born using in vitro fertilisation and other assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are more likely to have health problems in later life. The article said that a scientific meeting has heard that...
Posted By: www irishtimes.ieCategory: Bio-Ethics
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February 17, 2010
State is not 'source and beginning of ethics,' says Pope
Pope Benedict has said that human dignity must be protected as an "inalienable right" and that the State is not the “source and beginning of ethics”. Addressing members of the Pontifical Academy for Life on the occasion of their general assembly, the Holy Father emphasized to the group that...
Posted By: www.truthtv.org TruthtvCategory: Bio-Ethics
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February 12, 2010
Exposed: Stem Cell Foundation has unrevealed agenda
Youth Defence can reveal that the newly-established Irish Stem Cell Foundation is not the objective authority it purports to be but was, in fact, founded by a leading advocate of lethal research on human embryos. Furthermore, its founder, Dr Stephen Sullivan returned to Ireland in 2007 with the...
Posted By: Youth DefenceCategory: Bio-Ethics
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January 26, 2010
Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction – the missing children
Due mainly to fertility drugs and to assisted reproduction techniques such as IVF the incidences of pregnancies with more than one foetus i.e. multifetal pregnancies has increased. A mutifetal pregnancy can also occur naturally. A mutifetal pregnancy is generally considered more risky for the...
Posted By: www.truthtv.org TruthtvCategory: Bio-Ethics
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