News,

Abortion

• Leading UK Christian blogger praises BBC documentary exposing failure of morning-after pill strategy [Cranmer, 18 June] http://bit.ly/ixjZMp
• Demand for morning-after pills triples during royal wedding long weekend [Daily Mail, 17 June] http://bit.ly/jIkhFm
• French parents pressured to abort Down’s children, health activists complain [LifeSiteNews.com, 17 June] http://bit.ly/mAb9tf

Embryology

• Korean suspects caught for illegal online human egg sales [Center for Genetics and Society, 14 June] http://bit.ly/iSh8DK
• US doctor stops IVF practice after realising IVF is unethical [EWTN, 9 June] http://bit.ly/l1iE84

Euthanasia

• More elderly patients are dying of dehydration in Scotland's hospitals, figures suggest [Scotsman, 20 June] http://bit.ly/mAAOlm
• Poor home help for elderly in England threatening human rights', claims report [Telegraph, 20 June] http://tgr.ph/mRw1vB
• UK columnist says assisted suicide campaigner is leading UK to a dark place [Mail on Sunday, 19 June] http://bit.ly/ikv3LQ
• UK MP says legalising assisted suicide will pressure vulnerable into death [Liverpool Echo, 18 June] http://bit.ly/jx2zH3
• UK mother says she took disabled son to Swiss suicide centre [BBC, 18 June] http://bbc.in/kc2V5E

Population

• Andrew Mitchell, UK aid minister, is stuck in the era of anti-birth dinosaurs [SPUC, 20 June] http://bit.ly/ik11Ks
• Peru's sterilisation victims still await compensation and justice says columnist [Guardian, 17 June] http://bit.ly/lAvh3s

Sexual ethics

• Holy See opposes condom use, gay marriage in UN statement [Catholic Culture, 17 June] http://bit.ly/jceT50
• Poll suggests 62% of Americans believe marriage is one man, one woman, nothing else [LifeSiteNews.com, 17 June] http://bit.ly/lbNejG

General

• Religious leaders should not have automatic right to be heard on moral issues, argues UK columnist [Observer, 19 June] http://bit.ly/kcaV1R

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