19 Nov 2007 : Column 680 4.17 pm Lord Alton of Liverpool: My Lords, the topicality of today's debate was underlined in the headlines in the weekend newspapers, saying that the stem cell revolution has ended the need to use human embryos. I should like to turn back to...
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Yamanaka's Breakthrough Renders Use of Human Embryos Unnecessary
On Monday the House of Lords will complete the Report Stage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill and a few days later it will receive its Third Reading. The Bill will then go to the Commons and now is the time to start lobbying MPs about how they intend to...
Where 40 years of abortion has led
Universe Column, October 21st 2007 Next Saturday, October 27th, will be the fortieth anniversary of the passing of the Abortion Act. To commemorate the nearly 7 million unborn babies aborted in the intervening forty years, on Friday the 26th at 10.00 am Phyllis...
Human Cloning
To the Guild of Catholic Doctors Great Britain, May 2001 An Italian scientist recently announced his intention to press on with full human reproductive cloning. He said that any doubts he might have had about the ethics or desirability of doing this had been allayed...
The Dignity of Man And The Threat of Eugenics
A Talk at Beaconsfield, March 2001 The greatest twentieth century prophet against eugenics is GK Chesterton, and earlier this evening I visited his grave here in Beconsfield. Let me begin by paying tribute to him. His lovely poem "A Beaconsfield Ballad" celebrated the...
Making a Killing from Human Clones
Universe Column By David Alton Spurred on by vested interests every bit as powerful as those involved in the Enron-Arthur Anderson scandal, the pressure to permit the cloning of human embryos continues unabated. The battle has been waged in the Courts and in...
Debate on Cloning
Text of a speech given during the debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulations 2000. For the full text of the debate, click here. 22nd January 2001 Lord Alton of Liverpool rose to move, as an amendment to the Motion to approve the...
The dangers of embryo experimentation
Universe Column for October 8th 2006 by David Alton Barely a day passes without a new claim being made for the curative powers of stems cells derived from human embryos. The latest, which appears in a paper published by Dr. Robert Lanza of the University of Utah,...
Making a Killing from Human Clones
Universe Column By David Alton Spurred on by vested interests every bit as powerful as those involved in the Enron-Arthur Anderson scandal, the pressure to permit the cloning of human embryos continues unabated. The battle has been waged in the Courts and in...
The National Health Service Celebrates Seventy Years – Foundation Values and the High Calling of The Healer Recalled At Commemorative Cathedral Event
Speech Delivered by David Alton - Lord Alton of Liverpool - at the NHS Anniversary Celebration Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral May 2nd 2018 Choral Evening Prayer – 70th Anniversary of the NHS It...
Mesothelioma – and the threat to pupils and teachers in schools – Minister replies
Mesothelioma - and the threat to pupils and teachers in schools - March 2017 March 23rd 2017: Lord Nash, the Department for Education, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL6161): Question: To ask Her Majesty’s Government...
Recent Parliamentary Interventions: Refugee Children; Travellers and Roma; Polygamous Marriages and protection of Muslim women; Shelter’s campaign on housing standards; Debate on Mesothelioma: 40,000 British people have died of this fatal disease – and continue to do so. Pressure Continues for a National Mesothelioma Research Centre
November 17th 2016: Shelter's Campaign on Housing Standards Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, the noble Lord rightly said that the 39 attributes of Shelter’s Living Home Standard are a useful benchmark against which to measure perceptions about the housing stock...
The story of the Coming of Christianity to Korea and the story of the thousands who died for their faith – and new CSW Report on North Korea published on “Save North Koreans Day”.
At a ceremony in Rome where he received the St.Thomas More Advocacy Award, for his work on promoting freedom of religion and belief, David Alton particularly referred to the plight of North Korea's persecuted Christians. Here you can read the story of the coming...
January 2016 – NHS Trust “apologises unreserrvedly” and puts new protocols in place after the issuing of Non Resuscitation Orders to patients with Down’s Syndrome. Also see “Fatwa issued by ISIS” on people with Down’s; a mother’s moving response; Archbishop Charles Chaput on Down’s Syndrome; Minsterial replies on December 22nd
January 12th 2016 - Response from the East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust about the issuing of Do Not Resuscitate Orders to patients with Down's Syndrome - and offers "an unreserved apology" and puts better protocols in place : East kent1 East Kent2...
Paying A Price For Belief – the Assyrian Christians abducted by ISIS and face execution. Also, recent parliamentary interventions and the paltry sum we set aside to promote freedom of religion and belief
Also see: July 1st 2015 article on the targeting of Christians worldwide: http://www.geopolitical-info.com/en/article/1435726790089290800 8.01 pm: Thursday June 25th, 2015 Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB): My Lords, Syria is the worst humanitarian catastrophe of our...
Rwanda Report – 2004
JUBILEE REPORT October 2004 RWANDA The Killing Continues – The Legacy of the Rwandan Genocide 1.0 Purpose 1.1 Between Sept 26th to Oct 1st 2004, a Jubilee Action delegation...
2011 Parliamentary Debate on Human Rights
Human Rights Debate 11.37 am Moved by Lord Alton of Liverpool To call attention to human rights abuses worldwide and to the recommendations of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission on how the Foreign and Commonwealth Office pursues human rights questions; and...
Spoken Interventions in the House of Lords
To read the details of the following interventions in House of Lords debates and questions please click on this link: TheyWorkForYou Website Results 1-20 of 406 items spoken by Lord Alton of Liverpool in Commons debates or Westminster Hall debates or Lords debates or...
Why We Need A National Bioethics Commission
The Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has remarked that "We have had, generally, in this country a deficit of medical ethics". The truth of that comment has been borne out in the debates on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Bill. Along with...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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Letter from the Lord (David) Alton and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, co chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, to Lord (David) Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, about the CCP’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in breach of both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
£1 Trillion – Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.
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