News,

• Irish government defames pro-life counselling centres [Irish Times, 21 July]
• 31 per cent drop in the numbers of Irish women travelling to Britain for a termination over the last seven years [Irish Times, 21 July]

• Reprogrammed stem cells repair damaged mouse hearts [Reuters, 21 July]

• Israelis held in Romania over human egg trafficking [Reuters via Yahoo!, 20 July]

• The number of people aged over 65 on course to overtake the number of infants for the first time in history, a study has found [Telegraph, 20 July]
• Catholics in Vietnam are facing heavy fines for failing to adhere to the nation's two-child policy, which has been in force since 1994. One parish priest says that 90% of his parishioners have paid fines rather than violate Church teaching against artificial contraception. [Union of Catholic Asian News, 16 July]

• Condoms are to be distributed free to boys as young as 13 in Hampshire [This is Hampshire, 20 July]

• A pregnant mother killed two of her children and tried to murder her six-month-old baby while suffering from severe post-natal depression, a court has heard [Daily Mail, 21 July]

• Mother sues hospital for £1.5million for 'missing' baby's severe disability, says she would have aborted him [Daily Mail, 16 July]
• A critically ill teenager who resisted attempts by doctors to give her a heart transplant has changed her mind and agreed to go ahead with the operation. [Times, 21 July]

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