The British Medical Association (BMA) has proposed radical changes to the UK's organ donation system.The changes include presumed consent for organ removal as well as keeping patients alive solely to enable organ removal. [Telegraph, 13 February] In a separate move, two US bioethicists have argued f...

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The US founders of the 40 Days For Life initiative are visiting the UK.David Bereit and Shawn Carney have so far visited pro-lifers in London, Birmingham and Manchester. Almost 200 people attended the inaugural 40 Days For Life banquet in Westminster cathedral hall. [SPUC youth blog, 13 February]Oth...

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Abortion and Slavery - Part II Posted by Matthew McCusker on 14 February 2012 Systems of slavery are always open to the most horrific abuses of human dignity.The horrors of slavery in the New World were compounded by the belief that persons of African origin were racially inferior to those of E...

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Undercover at a pro-abortion meeting: Part II Posted by Dan Blackman on 10 February 2012 Evan Harris was the next to speak at the Voice for Choice meeting (see Part I), speaking mostly about himself and how fantastic his efforts in parliament had been.Evan Harris was a leading pro-abortion and ...

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Sarah Palin offers hope to mothers of children with Down's Syndrome Posted by Jack Francis on 9 February 2012 The Daily Mail reported yesterday morning on a touching account given by Sarah Palin about raising her child Trig, who has Down's syndrome.Sarah Palin's testimony on the joy of caring f...

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Dr Rowan Williams, the leader of the Anglican Communion, has said that legalising assisted suicide would spell "disaster".Addressing a General Synod debate, Dr Williams said: "[T]o change the law on this subject is, I believe, to change something vital in our sense of the value of life itself."The s...

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Students at a university in the American state of Pennsylvania can buy morning-after pills from a vending machine.The machine also provides condoms and pregnancy tests. [Mail, 7 February]According to the manufacturers, morning-after pills may cause early abortions by preventing embryos implanting in...

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13-year-old girls at nine schools in Southampton, England, have been fitted with birth control implants without their parents' knowledge.Norman Wells, director of the Family Education Trust, said: "Schemes like these inevitably lead to boys putting pressure on girls to have sex. The last thing they ...

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News, Top stories: 13-year-old girls fitted secretly with birth control implants 13-year-old girls at nine schools in Southampton, England, have been fitted with birth control implants without their parents' knowledge. Norman Wells, director of the Family Education Trust, said: "Schemes like the...

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Abortion and Slavery - Part I Posted by Matthew McCusker on 4 February 2012 For many centuries slavery was widespread throughout the world and underpinned many economic systems.Slavery is a broad term and can be difficult to define precisely; it might mean that one person has complete control o...

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News, Top stories: Pre-IVF egg-screening test criticised by SPUC SPUC has criticised a Scottish IVF centre for introducing a technique to screen eggs for genetic abnormalities. The Glasgow Centre for Reproductive Medicine claims that the screening will improve the outcomes of IVF treatment. SPUC...

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The newly-elected Spanish government has announced that it is abolishing a citizenship school course which promoted abortion and other anti-life and anti-family ideas.The previous Socialist government had imposed the Education for the Citizenry course on schools against the wishes of many parents. []...

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SPUC has criticised a Scottish IVF centre for introducing a technique to screen eggs for genetic abnormalities.The Glasgow Centre for Reproductive Medicine claims that the screening will improve the outcomes of IVF treatment.SPUC Scotland said: "Even if egg-screening helps to increase the number of ...

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A report by the United Nations suggests that India is the most dangerous place in the world for girl children.Figures by the UN's Department of Economic and Social Affairs suggest that from 2000 to 2010 there were 56 deaths of boys aged one to five for every 100 female deaths.Campaigners cite sex-se...

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Two midwives from Southern General Hospital in Glasgow are challenging the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board over their right not to be involved in abortions in the hospital’s labour ward.SPUC is supporting the midwives' stance and is underwriting their legal costs.The case follows a lengthy gr...

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SPUC has described as "macabre and unethical" a so-called 'three-parent' embryo technique which is due to receive £5.8 million of funding.SPUC was responding to the announcement by the Wellcome Trust that embryo research into mitochondrial disease will start at its new centre at Newcastle University...

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The two bodies which draft the advertising code of practice have made changes to allow "commercial post-conception advice services" - in reality, abortion clinics which earn income from performing abortions - to advertise on television and radio, in print and elsewhere.Anthony Ozimic, SPUC's communi...

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A claim published in the Lancet medical journal that so-called 'unsafe' - usually illegal - abortions worldwide have risen by 5% is "dubious", says SPUC.The claim was made in a report by researchers from the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organsation (WHO).John Smeaton, SPUC director, com...

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A new US study is being used to claim that abortion is 14 times safer than giving birth.The researchers drew on data from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. Anthony Ozimic of SPUC told the Huffington Post: "Whatever the merits or otherwise of this study and its authors' conclusions, the fact rem...

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News, Top stories: Act now to get government to block advertising by commercial abortion centres The two bodies which draft the advertising code of practice have made changes to allow "commercial post-conception advice services" - in reality, abortion clinics which earn income from performing ab...

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