Actress Sally Phillips presents "A World Without Down's Syndrome?" which airs tonight at 9pm on BBC2.  A documentary on screening for Down's Syndrome, and a Dispatches episode on pavement counselling, are both due to air tonight.The actress Sally Phillips, whose son Olly has Down's syndrome, is pres...

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Cathy Newman: The Channel 4 presenter reveals her own abortion on the programme. Image: Channel 4Tonight will see the broadcast of a Channel 4 Dispatches episode called "Undercover: Britain's Abortion extremists." This show alleges that the pro-life groups 40 Days for Life (40DFL) and the Good Couns...

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Tonight's Dispatches episode - what to expect? Posted by Alithea Williams on 5 October 2016 Cathy Newman: The Channel 4 presenter reveals her own abortion on the programme. Image: Channel 4 Tonight will see the broadcast of a Channel 4 Dispatches episode called "Undercover: Britain's Abortion ext...

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The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has hit back at an attack on pavement counsellors, accusing the media of censoring the voices of women. A number of media outlets have launched an assault on pavement counsellors, especially the Good Counsel Network (GCN) - but have declined t...

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?One woman describes how help and support from a pavement counsellor gave her the strength to keep her baby A number of media outlets have launched an assault on pavement counsellors, especially the Good Counsel Network (GCN) - but journalists have refused all invitations to interview women helped b...

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Actress Sally Phillips with her son, Olly: "I was told it was a tragedy and actually it's a comedy." Photo: BBC The BBC has published a magazine feature on actress Sally Phillips and her upcoming documentary, "A world without Down's syndrome?" The piece says that ninety per cent of people in the UK ...

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First "three person baby" born Dr John Zhang, holding the baby reported to be the first born with DNA from three people. Photograph: New Hope Fertility Centre The world's first baby has been born using a "three person" fertility technique, according to the New Scientist.The controversial mitocho...

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SPUC members at the 50th anniversary conference On the weekend of 23-25 September, SPUC held a conference celebrating the 50th Anniversary of its founding (scroll down to see the photos).170 delegates gathered to recall the key event leading to the formation of the society, a letter in the Church Ti...

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Pro-Life activists say the Eighth Amendment protects mothers and babies. Image source: ReutersProtests held across the world against Ireland's pro-life laws The BBC reports that thousands of people have marched across Dublin and 20 other world cities to protest against Ireland's abortion laws.Protes...

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Left to right: Paul Tully, Alan Smith, Elspeth Chowdharay-Best and John Smeaton LONDO N : The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) this weekend hosted 170 delegates for a conference marking the 50th Anniversary of the organisation.The conference recalled the key event leading to the ...

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Parents furious after senior doctors suggest NHS should work out the "cost effectiveness" of caring for children with Down’s syndrome Families protesting Parliament at the Don't Screen Us Out rally in April Senior doctors caused outrage yesterday by suggesting that the costs of caring for childr...

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The Tooting Medical Centre offers early medicals abortions and abortifacients to a mostly Polish clientele Along with laser hair removal and Botox, a Polish clinic in London provides abortion. And it is not shy about what it does, listing abortion and its price on the facility's website.Tooting Medi...

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?A film with a pro-life theme has won several secular film awardsChristian pro-life film wins awards at secular film festivals Voiceless, a pro-life themed film written and directed by Pat Necerato (director of Bella) has already won several awards from secular film festivals in America ahead of its...

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A protest against the law allowing euthanasia for children, in Brussels, 2014. Credit: Reuters"Child euthanasia centre imminent" in the Netherlands Professor Eduard Verhagen, who is responsible for the Groningen protocol for the euthanasia of infants, has predicted that a centre for the euthanasia o...

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The Pope at a neonatal unit, to emphasise the Church’s commitment to the dignity and defence of human life from conception to natural death (Photo credit: ANSA)First child dies by euthanasia in Belgium A terminally ill seventeen year old has became the first minor to be killed through active euthana...

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The Belgian parliament votes in favour of allowing euthanasia for terminally ill children in February 2014. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters A terminally ill seventeen year old has become the first child to be killed through euthanasia in Belgium since age restrictions were removed two years ago....

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David Ford campaigned for abortion in cases of disability as justice minister David Ford to bring forward private member's bill over fatal foetal abnormality in Northern Ireland Former Northern Ireland justice minister David Ford is to bring forward legislation at Stormont seeking to legalise aborti...

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Amnesty is now leading pro-abortion campaigns in Northern IrelandAmnesty International renews call for abortion in Northern Ireland In light of the resignation of a paediatric pathologist who called for a change in Northern Ireland’s law prohibiting abortion on grounds of disability, Amnesty Interna...

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IVF already involves much discarding of embryosEmbryos might be created without eggs, scientists say Researchers at Bath University have conducted an experiment with mice which they say "hints" that human embryos may one day be created without using human egg cells. The researchers proposed this sce...

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BELFAST : SPUC responds to the resignation of Northern Irish paediatric pathologist Dr Caroline Gannon The UK’s largest pro-life organisation is warning that the campaign to introduce abortion into Northern Ireland risks becoming a witch-hunt against public officials who oppose a change in the Provi...

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