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Abortion

• Rocco Buttiglione, a prominent Catholic Italian politician says pro-lifers went wrong in pitting child against mother [National Catholic Reporter, 17 July] http://is.gd/1Hh6h
• Cardinal Antonio Canizares, a senior Vatican official, says that Spain's laws, which "must protect the defenceless, are being used today to eliminate those who are weak, innocent and defenceless." [Catholic News Agency, 21 July] http://is.gd/1HiWV
• A doctor in Spain who ran several abortion centres that did illegal abortions has been reinstated by the Barcelona Medical College [LifeNews.com, 20 July] http://is.gd/1Hibt
• NARAL, one of America's main pro-abortion groups, has endorsed Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the US supreme court [LifeSiteNews.com, 21 July] http://is.gd/1HiIS

Embryology; stem cells

• UK's Medical Research Council announces funding for adult stem cell projects [Medical Research Council, 20 July] http://is.gd/1Hham

Sexual health; teenage pregnancies

• Op-ed by Norman Wells of the Family Education Trust: "Sex education must not be statutory" [Telegraph, 21 July] http://is.gd/1HjCx
• Magazine promoting contraception to be distributed outside schools in Northumberland [News Post Leader, 17 July] http://is.gd/1HhCe

Maternal health and unborn health

• One of Ireland's first sextuplets has died. [BBC, 21 July] http://is.gd/1HiRN

Euthanasia and assisted suicide; disability

• Millions of pounds which the government allocated for the care of terminally ill patients is not reaching the people it was intended to help, a hospice charity has claimed [Western Morning News, 20 July] http://is.gd/1Hhmt
• Op-ed: "What's so civilised about a couple killing themselves?" [Belfast Telegraph, 21 July] http://is.gd/1HhFz
• Irish op-ed supporting assisted suicide: "Nobody, nobody, can deny you the right to control your own destiny" [Irish Independent, 17 July] http://is.gd/1HhH8
• God is merciful to people who commit suicide and the Church prays for those who kill themselves, the bishops of England and Wales have said ahead of this year's Day for Life, which focuses on suicide. [Catholic Herald, 17 July] http://is.gd/1Him1

Marriage and family; sexual ethics

• Fathers to get £30 DNA paternity test over the counter [Daily Mail, 18 July] http://is.gd/1HhRU
• The Catholic Church in England and Wales has rejected comments by Terry Prendergast of Marriage Care endorsing homosexual adoption [BBC, 20 July] http://is.gd/1HhYX

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