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An influential bioethicist has said laws which currently allow unborn babies to be aborted on the basis of disability are “incompatible” with the “very basis of a civilised and inclusive society”.
Dr Calum MacKellar, Director of Research for the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, made his comments in light of Heidi Crowter and Máire Lea-Wilson’s upcoming High Court case challenging the law on abortion concerning disability.
In the UK, abortion is permitted up to 24 weeks for most reasons – but is available up to birth for children deemed to have a disability. This has been used to justify abortion for conditions such as Down’s syndrome and cleft palate.
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Dundee watchmakers started making Sinclair computers at Timex in 1981
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The final testing bench for the Sinclair computer at the Dundee Timex factory.
Dundee watchmakers started making computers 40 years ago in March 1981 which would spawn the birth of the city’s video games industry.
The ZX81 computer was manufactured at the Timex factory which was the UK’s largest supplier of watches and the city’s single biggest employer with 5,000 workers.
Nimble fingers
It was a workforce which had skilled, nimble fingers which were perfect for watch manufacture and produced generations of the most skilled engineers in the country.