Last week, the House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cell Research, chaired by the Anglican Bishop of Oxford, gave the go ahead to experiments on cloned human embryos and 'spare' embryos left over from IVF procedures. Its conclusions came as little surprise to those...

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...

Universe Column By David Alton In April 1999 I won a place in a parliamentary ballot. This enabled me to choose the subject for debate. I used it to question the surreptitious manner in which human cloning was becoming a reality without any proper parliamentary or...

Universe Column By David Alton The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has launched yet another public consultation. This one is entitled “Sex Selection: Choice and Responsibility in Human Reproduction” and examines the sex selection of babies for...

Universe Column for January 4th 2004 By David Alton Just before Christmas I took part in a rather scary Conference on human cloning. It was scary because also on the platform was a representative of Cloneaid – whose representive could see no ethical objection to...

Lord Alton of Liverpool asked Her Majesty's Government: Following reports in the Sunday Times of 18 February, what action they intend to take to raise with the Bush Administration the consequences of permitting the development of a cloned baby; and what is their...