News, The British government has confirmed that it supports population control in Africa. Speaking in the House of Lords, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon said: "The Government are committed to improving sexual and reproductive health, including family planning, across Africa. In 2006, [the Department ]...

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News, A senior cardinal has said that family life is under attack by "direct denial, if not mockery, ridicule, and scorn." Cardinal Jorge Mejia, former archivist and librarian of the Catholic Church, identified same sex unions, sex change operations, in vitro fertilization, as well as the dehumani...

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10-wee The picture shows an unborn baby at 10 weeks after conception: recognisably a member of the human family. The baby measures 2 1/2 inches (61mm) from crown to rump ("sitting height"), and is growing at a rate of 1/2 inch (13mm) per week. The baby's face, at first broad, now becomes narrower; ...

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12 Dec Top storiesAlison Davis, the well-known pro-life disabled rights advocate, is heading a challenge to July's House of Lords judgment in favour of Debbie Purdy, the assisted suicide campaigner. SPUC supporters will know Alison well through her many years as co-ordinator of No Less Human, a gro...

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News, The Lawyers' Christian Fellowship and Comment on Reproductive Ethics are seeking a high court judicial review of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's licence which let Newcastle university, scientists create animal-human embryos. The fellowship says the authority acted outs...

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News, SPUC has responded to a new UK public opinion poll on abortion. Anthony Ozimic, political secretary, commented: "SPUC welcomes the evidence of continuing deep-seated concern about the alarming numbers of abortions, reflected in the poll conducted on behalf of Life, a leading pregnancy suppor...

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News, The highest court with jurisdiction over the United Kingdom has ruled that a woman may not use frozen embryos created by IVF after her former partner withdrew consent. The grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, ruled against Ms Natallie Evans, 35, of Wilts...

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11-wee The baby is completely formed even though he fits snugly into the doctor's hand. The ears were first distinguishable during the sixth week; the inner ear is completely formed in mid-pregnancy. The baby is held in the hand of the late Professor Sir Albert William Liley, the pioneer of medical...

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News, Some Catholic Labour MPs who oppose the UK government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill may have rejected an offer to let them to abstain from voting and, instead, they want to vote against the measure. Mr Greg Pope, MP for Hyndburn, said "I have had hundreds of letters from constit...

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News, The state health service in England has been running a pilot project which could lead to family doctors giving girls and women abortion-inducing drugs up to the ninth week of pregnancy. The government has confirmed that trials are happening in two places, though it will not say where. Mr Phi...

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News, A cross-party coalition of MPs is to push for changes to current abortion legislation to mark the 40th anniversary of the passing of the Abortion Act in Britain. Moves to increase access to abortion include removing the need for two doctors to sign an abortion referral and the extension of t...

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News, A parliamentary group has concluded that the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are "difficult or impossible to meet" without curbing population growth. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health will publish a report later this month claiming ...

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News, The UK government has extended free provision of the morning-after pill to girls as young as 12 without their parents' knowledge. The programme to allow pharmacists to provide the pill without prescription had been tried experimentally, but is now to be extend to any area where local health ...

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News, Pro-life campaigners to hold nation-wide street witness. Pro-life campaigners are due to give silent witness to unborn babies killed in the 42 years since the implementation of the Abortion Act, as well as to the hurt caused to women by abortion. On Saturday 24 April, SPUC supporters will ...

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13 Nov Top storiesThe government has announced that the teaching of sex education will be compulsory from age five onwards in state schools in England [Department for Children, Schools and Families, 5 November] http://is.gd/4UdTl Paul Tully, SPUC general secretary, commented: "We condemn this explo...

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News, AbortionThe government has announced that the teaching of sex education will be compulsory from age five onwards in state schools in England [Department for Children, Schools and Families, 5 November] http://is.gd/4UdTl Paul Tully, SPUC general secretary, commented: "We condemn this exploita...

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News, The English high court has agreed to let a woman with multiple sclerosis seek a ruling on whether her husband may be prosecuted if he assists her plan to commit suicide overseas. Ms Debbie Purdy, 45, is considering going to Belgium or Switzerland accompanied by Mr Omar Puente. [BBC, 11 June]...

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News, An international medical conference in Lisbon, Portugal, has examined the serious psychological and medical consequences experienced by millions of women who have had abortions. The Conference on Human Life Studies, which was promoted by the Women in Action Association, noted that, according...

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News, The pro-life cause has suffered a political setback in the United States following the results of the mid-term elections for Congress. The Democrats have won control of the Senate and of the House of Representatives from the Republicans. Anthony Ozimic, SPUC political secretary, commented: "...

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News, A nurse on trial in Germany has admitted killing a number of patients in his care and has said that his actions were motivated by compassion but 'cannot be justified under any circumstances.' Stephan Letter, 27, faces 16 murder counts which he has asked to be converted to manslaughter charge...

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