Mitochondrial research will cost lives
Mitochondrial research will cost lives, says SPUC. SPUC was responding to the announcement by Professor Dame Sally Davies, the government's chief medical officer that the government intends to bring forth draft regulations to allow the abnormal creation of human embryos in order to address mitochondrial diseases. In a statement, Dame Sally described the research as "life-saving treatment". A spokesman for SPUC responded: "In fact, the vast majority of embryonic children created in the laboratory are killed because they do not meet the 'quality control' requirements dictated by scientists involved in such increasingly macabre experiments. Also, over the past 20 years, proponents of human embryo experimentation have repeatedly claimed that such research offered the promise - and perhaps the only hope - of finding treatments for serious diseases. The public has been repeatedly misled. It is the biotech industry's excuse to create a genetically manipulated baby." [SPUC, 28 June]
Paul Tully, SPUC's general-secretary, told ITV News: "We're concerned that we are replacing what we know to be defective DNA in the embryos that we don't like with what we think is good DNA - but we can't be sure. Putting the money into this kind of research is denying funding to research which is needed and ongoing to help people with mitochondrial diseases and other diseases in other ways. We've seen the same thing before with stem cell research, we've seen it with IVF - promises that using embryos will lead to advances but come to nothing." [ITV, 28 June]
Tower Hamlets Council gets it wrong over teaching children about sex in science lessons
“Keep sex out of science lessons” was the key message from a demonstration of parents outside Arnhem Wharf Primary school in east London, organised by Tower Hamlets Parents' Action Group – SRE, and supported by SPUC Safe at School. 80 parents (pictured - click photo for high resolution) gathered outside the school between 2-3pm last Wednesday at exactly the time when Year 6 children inside the school were being shown sexually-explicit images in a science lesson from which their parents were unable to withdraw them. [SPUC, 27 June]Other stories:
Abortion
- Cardinal Sean Brady in prayer plea on abortion [Belfast Telegraph, 1 July]
- Abortion pill RU486 added to Australia's taxpayer-funded medicines list [Guardian, 1 July]
- Five-year old Jude sings out for the unborn child [John Smeaton, 28 June]
- Three parents? Sorry, but this is science gone mad [Telegraph, 29 June]
- Notorious child killer's suicide bid blocked after insanity reconfirmed [Mirror, 28 June]
- Why large families are healthier and cheaper, by the man who has six children under 14 [Mail, 1 July]
- Human rights dissident speaks out against Burmese population control rule [Democratic Voice of Burma, 27 May]
- Far-sighted policies in Australia are blocking same-sex marriage extremists [John Smeaton, 29 June]
- New Australian prime minister makes gay marriage an election issue [Irish Examiner, 29 June]
- Lesbian BBC presenter promotes homosexual agenda [Pink News, 29 June]
- Gay marriage critics risk court, Scots law group warns [Christian Institute, 28 June]
- UN Human Right's chief condemns Nigeria's anti gay bill [BBC, 28 June]
- Polygamy activists welcome US Supreme Court decision [Christian Institute, 28 June]
- Court ruling paves way for Northern Ireland same sex couples to adopt [Journal, 27 June]
- Senegal president rejects Obama's homosexual agenda [Times of India, 27 June]
- Morocco refuses to recognise French same-sex marriages [Gay Star News, 27 June]
- Men will be 'wives' and women will be 'husbands' as British gay marriage laws rewrite the dictionary [Mail, 28 June]
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