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Jackie Ashley: This fight really matters, and lays bare the big party divide

                   
guardian.co.uk
18-May-2008
        
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The embryo bill, with its ambush on abortion attached, crystallises the crucial clash: progressive Labour v reactionary Tory Bleep, bleep! That was never part of the original bill, but just a week ago, it was ambushed by the anti-abortion movement, mobilised by the Catholic church. The Catholic... [read full story]                    

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Church reaction to parliamentary votes

 thinkinganglicans.org.uk 21-May-2008
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This fight really matters, and lays bare the big party divide

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Church reaction to parliamentary votes

thinkinganglicans.org.uk
21-May-2008
        

Once again Dave Walker has a roundup of reactions to the voting in the House of Commons, see Abortion vote: blog responses. If you want to know what the numeric outcomes of all the abortion votes were, Louise Ashworth has them summarised here (these figures appear in the deadtree Guardian but I...

                   

No father figures

bbc.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

Opponents of the proposal say children need a father figure It is normally the emotive issue of abortion or the complexities of hybrid embryos that have raised the greatest passions in the debate over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. But the Church of England has reserved its greatest...

                   

Churches unhappy over father figures

bbc.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

Opponents of the proposal say children need a father figure It is normally the emotive issue of abortion or the complexities of hybrid embryos that have raised the greatest passions in the debate over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. But the Church of England has reserved its greatest...

libdemblogs.co.uk: Lynne Featherstone, Member of Parliament for Hornsey and Wood Green libdemblogs.co.uk

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill

libdemblogs.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

Monday and Tuesday much of my time was taken up with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. I have been lobbied by all sides on the issues covered by the Bill -hybrid embryos, saviour siblings, IVF rules and abortion time limit reduction in particular. I know how very much these issues...

                   
inthenews.co.uk: MPs voted against requiring a father in fertility treatment inthenews.co.uk

Need for father in fertility treatment rejected by MPs

inthenews.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

MPs have rejected calls for both a "father and a mother" to be a condition for fertility treatment. The amendment brought by Conservative MP Ian Duncan Smith was defeated by 292 votes to 217. The human embryology and fertilisation bill is expected to give lesbians and single women equal access to...

                   

Dads not needed in fertility revolution

metro.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

Fathers are no longer needed for kids born through IVF Children born to lesbians and single mothers using IVF do not need a father, MPs ruled on Tuesday. They must have only 'supporting parenting', under the biggest shake-up of reproduction laws in two decades, agreed in the Commons. The...

                   

Women win right to children without fathers

anglican-mainstream.net
21-May-2008
        

From Timesonline Single women and lesbian couples won landmark parental rights last night as MPs voted to remove the requirement that fertility clinics consider a child’s need for a father. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill will replace the rule with a “need for supportive parenting”...

Cross-party amendment is rejected

guardian.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

A change in the law that will remove the "need for a father" for children conceived by IVF will come into force within months after Commons modernisers defeated attempts to restrict access for lesbian couples seeking to conceive children. After a second day of passionate debate over the human...

Bid to tighten rules on access for lesbian couples to IVF is rejected

guardian.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

A change in the law that will remove the "need for a father" for children conceived by IVF will come into force within months after Commons modernisers defeated attempts to restrict access for lesbian couples seeking to conceive children. After a second day of passionate debate over the human...

                   

MPs scrap IVF children's 'right to father'

scotsman.com
20-May-2008
        

Published Date: 21 May 2008 By Gerri Peev political correspondent THE right to a father for children born after fertility treatment was dramatically dropped by MPs last night, after hours of impassioned debate in the Commons. THE right to a father for children born after fertility treatment was...

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