Ethics row as choosing baby’s sex splits MPs

A controversial report, which favours allowing parents to choose the sex of their child and rethinking the cloning ban, is published today by a committee of MPs split down the middle over the needs of science and the ethics of embryo research.

MPs say lift ban on reproductive human cloning

The creation of a half-man/half-animal may be thought to be the stuff of science fiction, but this week MPs will recommend that the government overturns its ban on such experiments.

The politics of childbirth

Overly medicalised? Starved of resources? Understaffed? Our story yesterday about one family's tragic experience of childbirth on the NHS has focused attention on maternity services in Britain. But are things really that bad? Sarah Boseley asks some of those on the frontline if they have faith in the system.