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Father of London mayor calls for population control
Stanley Johnson, a former politician and the father of Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, has called for the UK to adopt population control. Writing for the Conservative Home blog, Mr Johnson said: "What tools are available, for example in terms of social incentives or disincentives, to reduce this country’s population growth and to bring it back to more manageable levels?" He also called for "overseas aid programmes [to] deliver effective assistance to population and family planning programmes in the recipient countries". [Conservative Home, 9 September]
New review reveals assisted suicide become routine when legalised
A new review has found that assisted suicide becomes more routine in places where it is legalised. The Anscombe Bioethics Centre has produced the guide which links official data from the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Oregon and Washington, as well as UK parliamentary reports and journal research. The report notes that in every place assisted suicide is legalised, "numbers have increased over time and continue to do so"; the report also observes "a shift from permitting assisted suicide for cancer victims to include other diseases”. [Christian Institute, 20 August]
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- Chinese woman 'considering abortion eight months into pregnancy' due to one child policy [Evening Standard, 8 September]
- UN Population Fund aims to keep women in education until eighteen to slow population growth [Mail, 22 August]
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