News,

• Edward "Ted" Kennedy, the pro-abortion US senator, has died [Telegraph, 26 August] http://is.gd/2zd1B
• Women's magazine profiles women considering abortion because of fetal abnormalities [Medical News Today, 25 August] http://is.gd/2zezB
• Morning-after pill is abortifacient, say experts in Nicaragua [Catholic News Agency, 25 August] http://is.gd/2zfPn

• Adult stem cells from fat used to maintain actor's complexion [Express, 25 August] http://is.gd/2ze4Y
• Claim that Malaysia has been successful in transplanting stem cells to treat worn-and-torn cartilage [Mathaba, 25 August] http://is.gd/2zejQ The source is not clear about which type of stem cells were involved.
• A team of scientists in Wisconsin, America, claim to have developed retinal cells from both embryonic and reprogrammed skin cells [Medical News Today, 25 August] http://is.gd/2zeS7

• Mum with terminally ill sons defends "designer baby" twins [Crawley Observer, 26 August] http://is.gd/2zdwE

• Secondary school nurses should be free to administer the morning-after pill to help cut Scotland's teenage pregnancy rate, according to a sexual health doctor. A spokesman for the Catholic Church in Scotland responded: "The morning-after pill is like the equivalent of putting an ambulance at the foot of a cliff instead of putting a fence at the top." [Herald, 26 August] http://is.gd/2zdOB
• European Committee for Social Rights upholds pro-abstinence education programme in Croatia [Alliance Defense Fund, 25 August] http://is.gd/2zfiD
• A university report has claimed that while men welcomed a male contraceptive pill, women said their partners could not be trusted to take one regularly [BBC, 25 August] http://is.gd/2zdYb

• Diet may be linked with pre-eclampsia [Yorkshire Post, 25 August] http://is.gd/2zd9Q

• Palliative care nurse criticises anti-life columnist yet backs assisted suicide [Guardian, 26 August] http://is.gd/2zdDh

• More than 65 percent of all transplanted organs in China come from executed prisoners [AFP via Yahoo!, 26 August] http://is.gd/2zdnS
• Repentant Hollywood screenwriter to make film about Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Catholic Church has declared Our Lady of Guadalupe the official patroness of the unborn [LifeSiteNews.com, 25 August] http://is.gd/2zfCt

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