Feminist author and campaigner, Germaine Greer, has described IVF as a "lottery" and a "nightmare". She added that it was "sold to people as a success story but its actually utter misery and trepidation".

For the past ten years, there has been a consistent and powerful push to have embryo research legalized in Ireland. Mary Harney - in her various ministerial roles - has voted to fund embryonic stem cell research in the EU and has appointed supporters of embryo research to key influential positions.

New reports indicate that real hope for 'miracle' treatments using adult stem cells is on the way for those suffering from diseases afflicting both the brain and the heart.

Information obtained by pro-life activists under the Freedom of Information Act shows that the UCC Research Ethics Board (UREB) has granted approval for the importation of human embryonic stem cell lines for a research project. In a letter to the unnamed researcher the then Chair of the UREB, Dr ...

The Life Institute has said that it is time for the media to "stop the spin and stick to the facts" when discussing stem cell research. Dr Sean O Domhnaill said that reporting on stem cells tended to be "factually incorrect, incomplete and agenda-driven" and that journalists and editors had a ...

The Irish Times reports that "patients in the west of Ireland who suffer from the chronic inflammatory condition, Crohn's disease, will have the opportunity to take part in a cutting-edge clinical trial involving stem cell therapy later this year."

The Irish Times has reported that researchers are now studying the reasons why some children born using in vitro fertilisation and other assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are more likely to have health problems in later life.

Youth Defence can reveal that the newly-established Irish Stem Cell Foundation is not the objective authority it purports to be but was, in fact, founded by a leading advocate of lethal research on human embryos. Furthermore, its founder, Dr Stephen Sullivan returned to Ireland in 2007 with the ...

Another UCC professor has supported the stance taken by his colleague Prof William Reville opposing embryo research. YD ezine readers will recall that Prof Reville wrote in the Irish Times last week that the human embryo should be granted full legal protection. His position was attacked by Dr ...

Professor William Reville has called for human embryonic life to be protected, saying that "the deliberate killing of human embryos harms the respect for human life that we intuitively form around our coming into existence and may encourage a more general erosion of respect for life."

Russell Turnbull, 38, suffered massive damage to his right eye when he was caught in a scuffle after a night out in Newcastle in 1994. On the bus home, Turnbull had tried to intervene in a fight between two men but was injured when one of them began squirting passengers with ammonia, according to ...

Youth Defence has welcomed the result of a Millward Brown IMS poll which found that a large majority support legal protection fro embryonic human beings. The poll asked a sample of 943 people aged 18-plus: "Do you think the Dáil should enshrine the protection of the human embryo in law or not?" ...

Britain's Academy of Medical Sciences has announced that it will be launching a study into the ethics of using animals that contain human DNA for medical research.

Children of God for Life announced today that Neocutis, a bio-pharmaceutical company focused on dermatology and skin care, is using aborted fetal cell lines to produce several of their anti-aging skin creams.

A report in today's Irish Times has claimed that Trinity College Dublin is to introduce a code of practice which allows for embryonic stem cell research - despite widespread opposition to the practice.

Youth Defence has welcomes Cardinal Brady's condemnation of embryonic stem cell research. Speaking during Mass in St John's Cathedral in Limerick, the Cardinal said that "to plunder human life at its genesis, without respect for its inherent dignity reflects the very moral attitude which has put ...

A grandmother has made medical history as the world's oldest ever stem cell donor, to save her younger brother's life.