Judge Dedov: "The facts of this case clearly demonstrate how easily human trafficking might be formally represented as (and covered by) a surrogacy arrangement."  In a ruling that will have major implications for family law across Europe, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against surrogac...

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Euthanasia could "save Canada up to $139 million a year" says study It's cheaper to euthanize the ill and dying than to care for them, suggests the report. Doctor assisted suicide could save Canada tens of millions of dollars a year by avoiding costly end of life care, according to researchers a...

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President Trump restores the Mexico City Policy- what does this mean? Posted by Alithea Williams on President Trump signs the order reinstating the Mexico City Policy. In the last few days, the media has been full of the news that America's new president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive or...

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President Trump signs the order reinstating the Mexico City Policy. In the last few days, the media has been full of the news that America's new president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive orderreinstating the Mexico City Policy. Many sources have been bewailing the return of the "global gag", ...

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It is the first time "three-parent IVF" has been used to attempt to cure infertility. Image: Rex features. Reports that another baby has been born on January 5th after a form of 'mitochondrial donation' are alarming and should cause us to reflect more deeply what we are in the process of witnessing....

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Three-parent babies - what's going on? Posted by Anthony McCarthy on It is the first time "three-parent IVF" has been used to attempt to cure infertility. Image: Rex features.  Reports that another baby has been born on January 5th after a form of 'mitochondrial donation' are alarming and should...

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Whole Women's Health founder Amy Hagstrom Miller protested having to conform abortion clinics to hospital standards. Image: Darren Abate/Reuters. A study investigating the effects of a Texas law has found that if abortion clinics close and women have to travel further to obtain one, abortion rates d...

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?The statistics were based on termination rates across the rest of the UK. A new report has estimated that the lives of 100,000 people have been saved because of Northern Ireland’s pro-life laws. The report was produced by Both Lives Matter, a new collaborative movement of individuals and organisati...

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"Inclusive" women’s march bans pro-life feminists New Wave Feminists say they plan to be at the march anyway. Organisers of the Women's March on Washington, which takes place the day after Donald Trump's inauguration, has dropped one of its partner organisations...for being pro-life.New Wave Fe...

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What does the political situation in Northern Ireland mean for abortion? Posted by Liam Gibson on    Stormont was plunged into crisis after the resignation of Martin McGuinness as deputy first minister last week. On Monday, the Assembly collapsed- elections will now be held to elect a new execut...

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Stormont was plunged into crisis after the resignation of Martin McGuinness as deputy first minister last week. On Monday, the Assembly collapsed- elections will now be held to elect a new executive on March 2.Liam Gibson, SPUC's Northern Ireland development officer, gives an insight into what this ...

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Classroom sex lessons: Opponents step up safe at school campaign calling on parents to resist compulsory ‘big brother’ plans to sexualise children and undermine millions of families   Campaigners are stepping up their fight against controversial plans to impose compulsory sex education in the na...

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Disability advocates: lax prosecution policy for assisted suicide "leaves vulnerable people at risk from dodgy doctors" Nikki Kenward, a former theatre manager, came up with the idea to have a giant judge puppet at the rally outside parliament opposing the Marris assisted dying bill in 2015. Ima...

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Safe at School calls on parents to resist compulsory "big brother" plans to sexualise children. Statutory sex education would deprive parents of the possibility of protecting their children by withdrawing them from SRE lessons. Image: istock SPUC Safe at School is launching a nationwide appeal ...

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Prof Warwick, chief executive of the RCM, signed the country's 30,000 midwives to a campaign to legalise abortion up to birth.  Cathy Warwick, the chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), will step down from the role and retire at the end of August 2017, it has been announced. Prof W...

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The Economist reports that although reported instances of people aiding someone in committing suicide have increased, the number of arrests and prosecutions have gone down. Euthanasia advocates Dignity in Dying say this means the law should be changed. The Economist asked all police forces and the ...

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Professor Scarisbrick has also been at the cutting edge of educational work about abortion. Life Charity has announced that founder and Chairman Prof Jack Scarisbrick has stepped down after 47 years. His wife Nuala, with whom he founded Life in 1970 in response to the 1967 Abortion Act, has also ste...

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?The technique could lead to hundreds of embryos being produced and destroyed to achieve one pregnancy. Image: Getty.  A new fertility procedure that could allow sperm and eggs to be made from people's skin may lead to "embryo farming" on a massive scale and drive parents to have only "ideal" childr...

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Culture of Life Africa has produced a video focusing on Marie Stopes International's operations in Africa. Scroll down to watch the video! The video, presented by Obianuju (Uju) Ekeocha includes an interview with a former worker of a Marie Stopes International (MSI) abortion clinic in Uganda, who cl...

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?The BPAS clinic in Richmond also potentially put women at risk, according to a CQC report in 2015. The NHS in Norfolk has announced that it has given its three-year contract for abortion and related services to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), replacing Marie Stopes International (MSI...

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