News, A UK doctor has died in Zurich with the aid of the assisted suicide organisation Dignitas, BBC reports. Dr Anne Turner, 66, a retired family planning expert, had the degenerative disease supranuclear palsy and claimed she attempted suicide with drugs before but failed. In an interview with t...

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News, 25 February 2015 Amendment against sex-selective abortion defeated in Parliament British MPs voted yesterday to reject an amendment put forward by Fiona Bruce MP to clarify the law regarding sex-selective abortion. The Conservative MP said that her amendment would "clarify beyond doubt in s...

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News, President Bush has pledged to ensure the right to life of all unborn children following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the country's partial-birth abortion ban. "The ... decision is an affirmation of the progress we have made over the past six years in protecting human dignity and up...

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News, Comments on life-related issues by Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, the retired archbishop of Milan, in an Italian newspaper, have attracted widespread attention in both the Catholic and secular media. [L'espresso, 21 April] Some reports interpret Cardinal Martini's comments as at variance with...

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News, The House of Commons science and technology committee is holding an inquiry into the current UK law on abortion. The cross-party committee is looking at issues such as the upper time limit for abortion, whether to abolish the need for two doctors to sign abortion referral forms, the possibil...

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News, SPUC has condemned Tony Blair's endorsement of embryonic stem cell research in his farewell speech to the Labour party conference. Mr Blair said: "America does not want stem cell research, we do, we welcome it here." Mr Blair was referring to embryonic stem cell research, which kills embryon...

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27 Sep Scientists have created 'biological' pacemakers using human embryonic stem cells, the Independent reports. Researchers from Israel and the US grew the embryonic stem cells and coaxed them into becoming heart muscle cells, which were then injected into the hearts of pigs. However, before any ...

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News, Mr David Cameron MP, leader of the British opposition Conservative party, has declared his support for reducing the legal abortion limit from 24 weeks to between 20 and 21 weeks. Mr Cameron said: "I would like to see a reduction in the current limit, as it is clear that, due to medical advan...

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28 August 2009 AbortionSPUC launches new petition against abortion ads on TV [SPUC, 25 August] http://is.gd/2DBZc New petition launched by Amnesty for Babies [SPUC director's blog, 21 August] http://is.gd/2DCaU Op-ed on the significance of this Saturday's funeral for Edward "Ted" Kennedy, the pro-ab...

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29 Oct Top storiesSPUC is calling upon supporters to lobby a committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in order to stop two radical pro-abortion reports. The reports, authored by Christine McCafferty, the veteran anti-life British MP, will be debated by the assembly's Social,...

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28 Sep Professor Ian Wilmut, one of the scientists who cloned Dolly the Sheep, has applied for a licence to clone human embryos. Professor Wilmut of the Roslin Instititue in Edinburgh has emphasised the fact that his team wants to use embryos for research purposes only and will destroy them after e...

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News, Abortion The Spanish government has announced that the morning-after pill will be available in pharmacies without a prescription. The pill will be sold for under 20 euro (£18) without any age restriction. The Spanish health minister said the pill should only be used in emergencies. [Telegrap]...

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News, An analysis of Britain's 1967 Abortion Act published in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care has suggested that it is legally permissible for unsupervised nurses to perform abortions. Vincent Argent, a consultant gynaecologist and Lin Pavey, a former manager of a BPAS ...

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News, SPUC has condemned a decision by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to allow women to be paid £250 in "expenses" for donating their eggs for use in embryo experimentation. Anthony Ozimic, SPUC political secretary, commented: "For poorer women, this amount will be an ince...

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News, The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Britain's largest private abortion provider, has said that nurses should be allowed to give the abortion pill to women without the consent of doctors. Ann Furedi, chief executive of BPAS, said: "We would like to see the restriction removed that ...

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News, UK pro-life group questions why assisted suicide isn't prosecuted. Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), has announced that he did not consider it to be in the public interest to bring a case against Michael Irwin, a former GP, for assisting the 2006 suicide of Ray Cutke...

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News, AbortionSPUC is calling upon supporters to lobby a committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in order to stop two radical pro-abortion reports. The reports, authored by Christine McCafferty, the veteran anti-life British MP, will be debated by the assembly's Social, He...

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News, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, is planning a meeting with Catholic MPs to discuss the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill currently before the UK Parliament, The Times newspaper reports. All 64 voting Catholic MPs have been invited to the meeting which will r...

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News, The Irish government has confirmed that it paid for a teenager to have an abortion overseas. The Health Service Executive (HSE) said that a girl of under 17 had been taken out of the country for an abortion. The HSE refused to discuss details of the case but it is likely that a court order w...

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News, The price of abortifacient morning-after pills is expected to fall by 12% after Mr Gordon Brown, the British finance minister, announced a cut in sales tax on birth control supplies. The reduction in value added tax from 17.5% to 5% will mean that morning-after pills will cost £22 instead of...

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