News,

• Warren Hern, an American late-term abortionist, has written published works describing man as a "malignant eco-tumor" destroying the earth [LifeSiteNews.com, 7 August] http://is.gd/2bwCK

• Parents defend decision to select for a saviour sibling [Daily Mail, 10 August] http://is.gd/2bw51

• Temperature-based fertility monitor offered by Cambridge company [Telegraph, 10 August] http://is.gd/2bwvO

• Abused, maltreated kids have sex earlier, finds study [Reuters, 10 August] http://is.gd/2bx6g

• Unborn twins and mother with cancer both saved [Daily Mail, 10 August] http://is.gd/2bvUF

• The Medical Protection Society, which provides legal and ethical advice to its 260,000 members in the medical profession, fears doctors could be prosecuted for assisting suicide if they produce medical notes for terminally ill patients who go on to end their lives in a clinic such as Dignitas in Switzerland [Telegraph, 11 August] http://is.gd/2bvFi
• Study finds blacks never use, minorities rarely use Oregon assisted suicide law [LifeNews.com, 7 August] http://is.gd/2bwfN
  

• Fewer black women with postgraduate degrees are getting married and having children in America, according to new research [Medical News Today, 10 August] http://is.gd/2bxrB

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