6 February 2014

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UN committee overstepped mandate in pro-abortion attack on Catholic Church

A United Nations (UN) committee on the Rights of the Child overstepped its mandate in its pro-abortion attack on the Catholic Church, said lobbyists for the SPUC at the UN. SPUC is recognised officially by the UN at a non-governmental organisation NGO, and provides most of the pro-life lobbying efforts at the UN institutions in New York and Geneva. SPUC was responding to a report published by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which attacked the Catholic Church's teachings on abortion, contraception and homosexuality, under the guise of a critique of the Church's handling of child sex abuse cases. [SPUC, 5 February]

Related story: My meeting in New York with the papal nuncio to the United Nations [John Smeaton, 5 February]

Two-thirds of women seeking abortions were using contraception: Britain’s largest abortion provider

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), the UK's main independent abortion provider, has confirmed that the majority of women seeking abortion were using contraception at the time they conceived. Ann Furedi, BPAS’ chief executive, said: "Ultimately women cannot control their fertility through contraception alone, and need accessible abortion services as a back-up for when their contraception lets them down." Anthony Ozimic, SPUC's communications manager, told LifeSiteNews that there is a "growing body of evidence that the provision of contraception not only fails to prevent unplanned pregnancies but results in unborn children being victimised to death as the unwelcome consequences of so-called contraceptive failure. Abortion merchants like Ann Furedi use ‘contraceptive failure’ as a leverage for both more abortion and more contraception." Contraception’s effect on culture and society has been wholly negative. "It deems unborn human life disposable and discards any notion of individual responsibility for sexual behaviour." [LifeSiteNews.com, 5 February

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Abortion

Embryology

  • I had sex with patients who wanted babies, says Carla Bruni’s former gynaecologist [Metro, 5 February]

Euthanasia

Population

Sexual ethics

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6 February 2014

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