News,

• Famed NASA astronauts launch new pro-life ad [LifeSiteNews.com, 16 July]
• Murder defendant says slain mother told daughter to abort child [BBC, 16 July]
• U.S. appeals court rules to enforce Illinois parental notification law [Medical News Today, 16 July]

• Parents should be banned from withdrawing their children from sex education, say UK anti-life groups [Telegraph, 16 July]
  
• Fife has the second highest rate of teen pregnancies in Scotland, according to new figures [Fife Today, 16 July]
• BBC TV documentary on two teenagers "desperate" to get pregnant [BBC, 16 July]

• Gordon Brown, British prime minister, confirms his opposition to assisted suicide [Downing Street Says, 14 July]
• Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster writes against assisted suicide, focuses on the issues of autonomy and human value [Telegraph, 16 July]
• British Medical Journal (BMJ) latest articles on assisted suicide [BMJ, 16 July] The articles referred to in the editorial require a subscription or similar access.
• New analysis of Belgian euthanasia law [Social Science Research Network, 14 July]
• The Economist magazine endorses assisted suicide [Economist, 16 July]
• Wife accused of trying to kill disabled husband cleared of attempted murder [Daily Mail, 16 July]
• A Cardiff university website claims to help parents decide whether to have an amniocentesis [NewsWales, 16 July]

• Lithuania passes law to protect children from homosexual propaganda [BBC, 14 July]
• Head of English Catholic marriage counselling service due to promote homosexual adoption at dissenting Catholic homosexualist conference [LifeSiteNews.com, 16 July]
• House of Commons electoral reform group calls for more homosexual MPs [Christian Institute, 16 July]

• Mexican state of Yucatan becomes 14th to pass pro-life constitutional amendment [LifeSiteNews.com, 16 July]
• Sermon pod-cast by Peter C. Smith, secretary of SPUC Evangelicals [King's Church podcasts, 5 July]

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