News,

• Life-sized model of unborn child named after Spanish minister who said unborn babies not human at 13 weeks [Catholic News Agency, 23 July] http://is.gd/1K1xA
• Head of the Pontifical Academy for Life opposes government-funded abortion in America [Catholic News Service, 22 July] http://is.gd/1J6JI

• Two teams of Chinese researchers have created live mice from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells [Nature, 23 July] http://is.gd/1J6DW
• Church urges Uruguay not to legalize embryonic stem-cell research [Catholic Culture, 22 July] http://is.gd/1K1BF

• The government in the Chinese city of Shanghai is to encourage some parents to have a second child [BBC, 24 July] http://is.gd/1K1rG N.B. SPUC has warned that reports in the Western media of alleged relaxations of the one-child policy is usually propaganda by, or on behalf of, the Chinese Communist regime.

• A man whose terminally ill partner committed suicide in Switzerland has been arrested on suspicion of assisted suicide [BBC, 23 July ] http://is.gd/1J6MX
• The investigation into the deaths of an eminent conductor and his wife at a Swiss suicide centre will be referred to Britain's top prosecutor [Evening Standard, 23 July] http://is.gd/1K24A

• Archbishop of Guam condemns civil partnerships bill [Catholic Culture, 22 July] http://is.gd/1K1Kg
• On average 100 children and teenagers are charged with rape each year in Scotland [Christian Institute, 21 July] http://is.gd/1K1Nu
• Parents of 15 children want more [Metro, 23 July] http://is.gd/1K2Sm

• Does Tony Blair really have "a very intense and very deep faith"? [SPUC director's blog, 23 July] http://is.gd/1K2fF

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