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Article: MPs back use of 'hybrid' embryos
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- May 20, 2008
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MPs last night defied stark Church warnings against "Frankenstein
science" to overwhelmingly back laws offering hope to sufferers from
diseases including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and cystic fibrosis.
They voted to allow the use of part-human, part-animal embryos
for stem cell research to tackle a critical shortage of human eggs.
The vote was passed by 336 to 176, a majority of 160.
The result came as a relief to Gordon Brown, who had personally
urged MPs to back the measure in the Human Fertilisation and
Embryology Bill, because it had the potential to improve "millions
of lives".
But it will anger Church leaders, who condemned the mixing of
human and animal genetics as "monstrous". One ...