News, Proposals to merge the British fertility and embryology regulators have met with criticism from doctors and scientists. The merger between the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Human Tissue Authority was proposed by the Department of Health in 2004 in order to cut costs. T...

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News, Amongst the measures included in the draft Human Tissue and Embryo Bill, published recently by the Department of Health, is permission for scientists to create, under licence, human-animal hybrids for research into serious diseases. Pressure from scientists persuaded ministers not to ban the...

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News, SPUC has called for a proposed UN prohibition of violence against children to include a global ban on abortion. Commenting on the publication of a UN study on violence against children, John Smeaton, SPUC's national director, said: "We are deeply saddened by the report's findings. Abuse of ...

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News, The Board of Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has submitted a resolution to its 2007 international conference to include abortion in its policy on sexual and reproductive rights. The resolution states that AIUK supports research and action to achieve the, "decriminalisation of abortion," "acc...

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News, Members of the British cabinet will be permitted to vote against their government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, according to the Telegraph. Catholic MPs and members of the cabinet, Ms Ruth Kelly, transport secretary, and Mr Des Browne, defence secretary, are said to object to t...

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News, The number of abortions carried out in Britain continues to rise and has exceeded 200,000 for the first time, according to figures for England and Wales published by the Department of Health. [Department of Health, 19 June] SPUC has warned that the promotion of early abortion is putting the ...

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“If a nurse didn’t like you, you were a goner.” The "difficult" patients killed at Gosport nbsp; Families of those killed demand justice. A patient with learning difficulties came in for respite care - and died of "excessive" doses of diamorphine More details are emerging of the scandal in whic...

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Feng Jianmei, who was forced to have an abortion in 2012 by local officials at seven months pregnant Where have they been for decades of forced abortion?Authorities in China's Jiangxi province issued guidelines last week stipulating that women more than 14 weeks pregnant must have signed approval fr...

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?Families of the Gosport victims call for justice.  An earlier police statement said there was a culture of "involuntary euthanasia"  More than 450 people died in Gosport War Memorial Hospital after being prescribed "dangerous doses" of clinically unjustified pain killers, a damning new report has ...

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?Pro-lifers protest outside parliament during the vote, holding placards reading "Don’t freeze me" and "I am not an object". The law "stripped society of its humanity" Malta has passed new legislation allowing for embryo freezing and gamete donation. Controversial amendments to the Embryo Protectio...

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nbsp; Amnesty protests outside the Supreme Court Whose human rights to they stand up for?  Yesterday, the Northern Ireland office accidentally sent the briefing notes it had prepared for minister Karen Bradley to the press. It was a slightly embarrassing blunder, but "the notes were mainly innocuo...

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The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has hit back at Amnesty International's claims that the Government's position on Northern Ireland's abortion laws are "shameful". Grainne Teggart of Amnesty International made the remarks after leaked briefing notes prepared for Northern Irel...

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Decriminalising abortion would have "far reaching consequences", MP tells SPUC meeting nbsp; SPUC Education Manager Tom Rogers with Steve Double MP He called calls to liberalise abortion "fundamentally wrong" A Conservative MP has told a SPUC meeting that decriminalising abortion would lead to ...

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nbsp; Argentinian pro-lifers had urged lawmakers to "Save Both Lives". Argentina's Chamber of Deputies has backed a bill legalising abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, by 129 votes to 125. The debate lasted more than 22 hours, over Wednesday and Thursday. Only three hours before the vote,...

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nbsp; Dr Saba is challenging Quebec's medical aid in dying law. They argue lack of care means patients cannot properly consent to euthanasia When the Canadian province of Quebec first brought in assisted suicide legislation, 262 people died under it in the first seven months - about three times mo...

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"I think it is very much directed towards eliminating Down Syndrome": debate on screening in Wales nbsp; Welsh mothers of babies with Down's syndrome speak out against prenatal screening. Discoverer of genetic link was pro-life and horrified that it was being used to screen out babies with the c...

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nbsp; Leo Varadkar and Simon Harris both showed contempt for conscience rights But will he have to compromise? Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has insisted that doctors will be forced to refer women for abortions when legislation is introduced following the repeal of the Eighth Amendment.  The remar...

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