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Parents win right to grow babies for 'spare parts'

From correspondents in London

November 11, 2007

Article from: Sunday Herald Sun, Australia

PARENTS of sick children in Britain will be allowed to use IVF to create "spare-part babies" under controversial laws published yesterday.

The legislation will dramatically relax rules on IVF clinics creating "saviour siblings" who can help cure their older brothers and sisters of medical conditions such as leukemia.

Experts said that one day they could create a "designer baby" with kidneys perfectly compatible with a sibling suffering renal failure.

More immediately, saviour siblings could give umbilical cord blood or bone marrow to family members in the hope of treating conditions such as sickle cell anaemia.

The Government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill will be debated in British Parliament and is expected to become law in 2009.

The Daily Mail, in The Sunday Herald Sun 
 

Married Women Cheating /
Paternity Fraud

NEWSWEEK
Cover Story

July 12, 2004 edition

More married women are cheating on their spouses than ever before and the infidelity gender gap is almost certainly closing.

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A press release we found interesting

Lack Of DNA Paternity testing abuses Dads and Kids

New Zealand Child Support Reform Network.
Press release: New Zealand Child Support Reform Network.
10 November 2004 For Immediate Release

Lack of free Family Court Ordered DNA Paternity testing abuses Dads and Kids.

"The Labour Government is abusing fathers and children by failing to legislate for free DNA testing to establish paternity", is how Jim Nicolle, spokesperson for the New Zealand Child Support Reform Network, responds to United Futures call for Family Court Ordered DNA paternity tests.

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