Pro-lifers have held a vigil for Jim Pouillon, a 63-year-old pro-life activist who was shot dead in Michigan, America. Mr Pouillon had been shot whilst carrying a pro-life sign in front of a school in the town of Owosso. A man has been arrested by police on suspicion of murder and reportedly told prosecutors that Mr Pouillon's pro-life activity was the motive behind the murder. Mr Pouillon had received numerous threats, including death threats, in the past. [LifeSiteNews.com, 14 September] http://is.gd/3ipNR

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• Over 25% not told when life support is withdrawn from relatives
• Dominican Republic debating total ban on abortion [Irish Sun, 15 September] http://is.gd/3iPmA
• Guardian feature on abortion in India [Guardian, 14 September] http://is.gd/3iPo9
• "An Australian teenager faces seven years in prison after being ordered to stand trial for organising her own home abortion in the first such prosecution in Australia in over half a century." [Times, 11 September] http://is.gd/38NPA
• "Tens of thousands of Scots might be donating cells for research to create cloned animal-human embryos without their consent, an ethics campaigner has warned" [Scotsman, 15 September] http://is.gd/3iPtc
• "Tens of thousands of samples of human tissue will be offered for use in controversial human/animal hybrid embryo research without the consent of the patients who donated them" [Telegraph, 12 September] http://is.gd/3iPvd
• "Just half of infertile women use hormonal and/or IVF treatment, an Australian study concludes" [MedWire News, 14 September] http://is.gd/3iPy9
• Women are risking their lives to have babies by in vitro fertilisation, says IVF expert [Gulf News, 13 September] http://is.gd/3iPzW
• "A US University settled dozens of civil lawsuits over eggs or embryos stolen by two doctors more than a decade ago, in an effort to end the scandal over its fertility centre." [Wales Online, 11 September] http://is.gd/38KEd
• "Croatia's government moved Thursday to amend a law on in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) after strong criticism from human rights and parents groups over its criteria for couples entitled to treatment." [AFP via Yahoo!, 10 September] http://is.gd/38MES
• "Women who conceive when using an intrauterine contraceptive device have an increased risk for adverse obstetric outcomes compared with other women, conclude Israeli researchers" [MedWire News, 14 September] http://is.gd/3iPIM
• "Woman who suffered nine miscarriages gives birth to healthy baby boy" [Daily Mail, 14 September] http://is.gd/3iPMr
• "A woman who faked her own pregnancy has pleaded guilty to cutting open the belly of a pregnant woman and trying to remove her baby" [Irish Examiner, 14 September] http://is.gd/3fs7o
• "Two NHS midwives have set up a private company in a bid to help pregnant women make more informed choices about the birth of their children." [Wales Online, 14 September] http://is.gd/3iPTo
• "A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, has died during a difficult delivery in which her baby also died" [Middle East Online, 13 September] http://is.gd/3iPW7
• Op-ed on child abandonment [Daily Mail, 10 September] http://is.gd/38MpH
• Feature on women who kill pregnant mothers and steal their unborn children [Guardian, 11 September] http://is.gd/38MXe
• "Too many women may be undergoing hysterectomies for heavy periods when alternative treatments should be considered first, a study suggests." [BBC, 11 September] http://is.gd/38NsX
• New British initiative to improve maternity care [MediLexicon, 10 September] http://is.gd/38NF9
• Baroness Finlay responds to pro-assisted suicide BMJ editorial [BMJ, 14 September] http://is.gd/3iQ0G
• Retiring Anglican bishop of Rochester expresses concern at push for assisted suicide [Telegraph, 13 September] http://is.gd/3iQ3z
• "Lord Falconer has suggested that the Archbishop of Canterbury's stance on assisted suicide lacks Christian compassion" [Telegraph, 11 September] http://is.gd/3fswW
• "Families are being wrongly burdened with "agonising" life or death decisions over whether to resuscitate their loved ones, a leading expert has warned." [Telegraph, 12 September] http://is.gd/3frYv
• "Coroner praises 'heroic' couple who leapt to their deaths after losing son" [Scotsman, 12 September] http://is.gd/3fsmB
• President of England's new Supreme Court says he sympathises with people seeking assisted suicide [Telegraph, 10 September] http://is.gd/38M5C
• 16th Mexican state amends its constitution in a pro-life direction [Catholic News Agency, 11 September]