A UK woman has recounted how she starved and dehydrated her mother to death. In a new book, Jane Gross claims that her mother Estelle requested her own death. Jane Gross claims that the death was via a lawful "process known as VSED (Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking)" [Daily Mail, 4 August] http://bit.ly/ox4WGB Anthony Ozimic of SPUC commented: "This case should be investigated by the police. There are serious questions to be asked about the mother's mental capacity and about the complicitly of Jane Gross and nursing home staff in what may have been an unlawful homicide."

Question of embryo adoption is closed, says Catholic pro-life leader

The interim president of Human Life International (HLI) says that the question of embryo adoption is closed. Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro Carambula was commenting on a recent debate between two prominent US pro-life Catholic bioethicists. He said: "From a rational perspective it should be clear that embryo adoption is unnatural." [LifeSiteNews.com, 3 August] http://bit.ly/oXlmSu

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Question of embryo adoption is closed, says Catholic pro-life leader

Profile of Sisters of Life, New York Catholic order of pro-life nuns [Wall Street Journal, 29 July] http://on.wsj.com/pbnZ2c

Japanese scientists claim creation of mouse sperm from mouse embryonic stem cells [Reuters, 5 August] http://reut.rs/okxZIg

Vatican newspaper marks 70th anniversary of cardinal's famous sermon against Nazi euthanasia programme [L'Osservatore Romano, 3 August] http://bit.ly/mTomyh

Mother of four faces deportation from US to China, forced sterilisation [LifeSiteNews.com, 4 August] http://bit.ly/qDqv80

Majority of Americans against Obama decision to force birth control insurance coverage, suggests poll [LifeNews.com, 4 August] http://bit.ly/nubvTW

UK mother risked life to start family [Tameside Advertiser, 3 August] http://bit.ly/pvs9Eb