Christopher Kemp's parents told him to turn himself in after he admitted beating his 37 week pregnant ex-girlfriend."I didn't want to hurt her, just the baby."A man in Birmingham, Alabama is on trial after being accused of beating his 37 week pregnant ex-girlfriend and killing her unborn child.31 ye...

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The report found that teenagers today are focused on their studies, and spend more time communicating with friends online than in person. But they still claim sex education has helped Between 2007 and 2015, the under-18 conception rate in England almost halved. Many have attributed this decline to t...

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"Here I was holding this baby that everyone said I’d never have." Image: Pilar MitchellEven IVF pioneer says desperate couples are being exploited.The Australian website Kidspot has reported the story of a couple who were told that IVF was their only chance to have a baby, only to conceive naturally...

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John Deighan has a wealth of experience in political campaigning and media engagement A new research directorate has also been set up.  The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has confirmed the appointment of John Deighan as its new deputy chief executive. Mr Deighan has been chief ...

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Experts in palliative care and ethics hit back at assisted suicide calls.It's very telling that the people who would have to carry out assisted suicide oppose itThe former president of the Royal College of Surgeons, a clinical ethicist and an associate professor in intellectual disability and pallia...

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Harper and Quinn. Image: Nicola BaileyAnd we've found the best cover of Three Lions yet When doctors told Todd and Nicola Bailey that their twin daughter Harper had Down's syndrome, they broke the news by saying, "I'm so sorry".But the proud parents insist that there is nothing to be sorry for. "Our...

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Women are being told that medical abortion is a safe and easy solution to unplanned pregnancy.Following the recent decision in Wales to license the second stage of medical abortion for home use, there have been increased calls for England to follow suit. In a piece in the British Medical Journal pub...

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Amnesty International adopts new broad pro-abortion policy to ""respect human rights"" nbsp;The human rights organisation that tramples on the rights of the unborn. Abortion is a human rights issue they say...because everyone has the right to life Amnesty International has changed its abortion po...

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Bernadette Smyth of Precious Life and Niamh Uí Bhriain of the Life Institute No abortion in Northern Ireland on our watch, say pro-life leaders  Thousands of pro-lifers marched on Stormont on Saturday for the annual All-Ireland Rally for Life. This year's Rally was held in the grounds of Parliament ...

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Setting off from PrestonPreston to Walsingham 26 – 28 June 2018 Day 1I set off from the new SPUC Northern Office in Preston in perfect cycling weather. This was the beginning of a challenge that I had thought about many times. Now I had a reason to rise to that challenge; the plight of unborn babies...

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Professor Hubert Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Wales Professor Sir John Dewhurst, former President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Professor Peter Gray, Emeritus Professor of Child Health, College of Medicine, University of Wales Dr Mic...

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SPUC's Evangelical division was established in order to spread the pro-life message specifically to Evangelical Christians, and to support Evangelical pro-lifers to be active in opposing abortion through their churches and communities.While SPUC is a non-religious organisation, we also recognise tha...

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SPUC's Muslim division was established in order to spread the pro-life message specifically to Muslims, and to support Muslim pro-lifers to be active in opposing abortion through their mosques and communities.While SPUC is a non-religious organisation, we also recognise that it is important for indi...

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PGD is a technique used to test embryos created in the laboratory for genetic disabilities or sex-related disabilities such as haemophilia, which only affects boys.A court case in April 2003 allowed PGD to be used for the first time to test for a genetic disability and at the same time select an emb...

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In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is used to help couples that cannot conceive naturally. A number of eggs are fertilised by sperm in a petri-dish and one or two of the newly created embryos are then transferred to the womb in the hope that they will implant.IVF births account for about 1% of the total n...

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Cloning allows scientists to create a genetic copy of another human individual. The clone is not an exact copy, in spite of sharing DNA with the person from whom he/she was cloned.There are two types of cloning: so-called therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. Both types of cloning are reprod...

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Stem cells are the body’s universal cells; which have the potential to develop into more specialised cells or body tissue.Stem cells are found in the placenta and umbilical cord of a newborn baby and in children’s milk teeth. They are also found in sites within the adult body - such as fat, bone mar...

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Disabled people are fatally discriminated against by the law on abortion in the UK, which allows for abortion of disabled babies right up to birth. There are obvious eugenic aspects of abortion for foetal anomaly and selective feticide in multiple pregnancy.There is often subtle or not-so-subtle pre...

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In their book Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn warn: "More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade th...

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