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Unborn Children (Protection) Bill

Nature volume 314, pages 127–128 (1985)Cite this article

If the bill recently presented in the British Parliament were to become law, many promising avenues of research would be blocked.

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  1. Director of the MRC Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Institute, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK

    H. John Evans

  2. Director of the MRC Mammalian Development Unit, University College London, London, NW1 2HE, UK

    Anne McLaren

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Evans, H., McLaren, A. Unborn Children (Protection) Bill. Nature 314, 127–128 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/314127a0

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