Run for your LIFE, Laura!
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Laura Higgins, one of LIFE's trustees, is running the whole of Hadrian’s Wall in less than 24 hours to raise money for us. The event takes place on 18 July. It is 69 miles. She needs all the help she can get. Show your support on her just giving page!
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If you haven't already done so, please visit the 'Don't Screen Us Out' campaign website to learn more about the consequences of NIPT screening and to contact your MP. Urge them to write to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and advocate the halting of the screening until reforms are made to support families with Down's and similar conditions.
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Please do also sign the international petition addressed to the UN and EU by our friends at Stop Discriminating Down on the same issue of #NIPT
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LIFE calls for ban on Genetic Modification of Human Beings
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On 1st February the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority announced that UK scientists have been given the approval to genetically modify human embryos.
In response to the announcement, Director of Education, Anne Scanlan, said: "The HFEA now has the reputation of being the first regulator in the world to approve this uncertain and dangerous technology. It has ignored the warnings of over a hundred scientists worldwide and given permission for a procedure which could have damaging far-reaching implications for human beings."
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What you need to know about gene editing
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Dr John Ling, one of LIFE's trustee's, is a freelance, writer, speaker and consultant on bioethical issues, and writes this week's guest blog: "What you need to know about gene editing".
"...But anything involving the improvement of infertility - the essential so-called 'therapeutic benefit' - catches the ready ear of the popular media. And many scientists have learned that a little hype goes a long way towards obtaining regulatory approval - remember those puffed-up, but eventually successful, calls for human-admixed and 'three-parent' IVF.
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- The pro-choice lobby continue to hi-jack and exploit the zika virus to push abortion reform in South America, whilst an abortion group, 'Women on the Waves' are offering free abortion pills to women infected with Zika.
- The BBC has been accused of “shameless” bias after telling staff to use the term “anti-abortion” rather than “pro-life”, while at the same time referring to abortion lobbyists as “pro-choice” as they “favour a woman’s right to choose”.
- The Northern Ireland Assembly is set to vote next week on controversial plans to liberalise abortion laws in the Province.
- US restaurateur is sentenced to 9 years in prison for slipping an abortion pill to his ex-girlfriend whilst she was pregnant.
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