News, SPUC members held a vigil outside the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in London on Friday to show their concern at proposals to advertise abortion on television. Participants were led by Anne Fearon of Crosby, Merseyside, who said: "SPUC members from all over the country are anxious to...

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Pro-life vigil against plans to advertise abortion on TV London, Monday, - Members of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) held a vigil outside the Advertising Standards Authority in London on Friday (19 June) to show their concern at proposals to advertise abortion on televisio...

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News, A message from John Smeaton, SPUC director: For many years a committed team of SPUC staff has provided regular pro-life news services via the SPUC website and email, and more latterly through my blog, the SPUC Facebook group and now Twitter. While delivering news and comment in this way incu...

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A resolution on maternal mortality has been passed by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Communication between national delegations and the pro-life/pro-family coalition lobbying at the council's meeting this week in Geneva, Switzerland resulted in the removal of pro-abortion language from the...

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A head of a hospice association in the American state of Oregon has claimed that palliative care has improved since the introduction of assisted suicide there. Deborah Whiting Jaques, head of the Oregon Hospice Association, writing in a letter to the London Times, argued "[t]hat just 401 people in 1...

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News, A head of a hospice association in the American state of Oregon has claimed that palliative care has improved since the introduction of assisted suicide there. Deborah Whiting Jaques, head of the Oregon Hospice Association, writing in a letter to the London Times, argued "[t]hat just 401 peo...

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Ed Balls contradicts health department report on teenage pregnancies London, - A cabinet minister has contradicted a government report by claiming that teenage pregnancies "have come down substantially" nationally. Ed Balls, secretary of state for children, schools and families, made the comments a...

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Court to hear application for review of Northern Ireland abortion guidelines Belfast, Thursday, June 11, 2009 - An application for leave for a judicial review of the Northern Ireland government's guidance on abortion will be heard in the Northern Ireland high court on Monday the 29th of this month (...

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News, Amnesty International, the human rights group, has criticised the Dominican Republic for moves to ban abortion. The country's congress is considering a new constitutional provision to guarantee the right to life from conception to natural death. In a press release, Amnesty admitted that, alt...

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Amnesty International, the pro-abortion 'human rights' group, has criticised the Dominican Republic for moves to ban abortion. The country's congress is considering a new constitutional provision to guarantee the right to life from conception to natural death. In a press release, Amnesty admitted th...

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A leading British columnist has criticised the campaign to undermine English law on assisted suicide. Dominic Lawson, writing in The Times, argued that campaigners for assisted suicide have much broader goals than an amendment tabled in the House of Lords by Lord Falconer, the former Lord Chancellor...

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News, A leading British columnist has criticised the campaign to undermine English law on assisted suicide. Dominic Lawson, writing in The Times, argued that campaigners for assisted suicide have much broader goals than an amendment tabled in the House of Lords by Lord Falconer, the former Lord Ch...

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News, A pregnant woman convicted of drug-smuggling has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Laos. There have been allegations that she became pregnant in order to avoid execution, as under Laotian law pregnant woman cannot be executed. There are moves to transfer her to a British jail. [Times, 4]...

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A pregnant woman convicted of drug-smuggling has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Laos. There have been allegations that she became pregnant in order to avoid execution, as under Laotian law pregnant woman cannot be executed. There are moves to transfer her to a British jail. [Times, 4 June]Th...

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SPUC challenges Northern Ireland government's abortion guidelines SPUC challenges Northern Ireland government's abortion guidelines Belfast, - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) is to mount a legal challenge to the Northern Ireland government's guidelines on abortion. The ...

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Extreme pro-abortion anti-family report presented at Human Rights Council meeting Geneva, - A report into violence against women has been used to promote an extreme pro-abortion agenda at the United Nations Human Rights Council, currently meeting in Geneva. The report, by Yakin Ertürk, the council'...

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A report into violence against women has been used to promote an extreme pro-abortion agenda at the United Nations Human Rights Council, currently meeting in Geneva. The report, by Yakin Ertürk, the council's special rapporteur on violence against women, attempts to link bans on abortion with violen...

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News, A report into violence against women has been used to promote an extreme pro-abortion agenda at the United Nations Human Rights Council, currently meeting in Geneva. The report, by Yakin Ertürk, the council's special rapporteur on violence against women, attempts to link bans on abortion wit...

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News, The House of Lords is hearing the case of Debbie Purdy, concerning whether her husband will be prosecuted if he takes her overseas to commit suicide. SPUC is represented as an intervenor. The principal issue is whether the Law Lords will overturn the ruling of the High Court and the Court of...

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The House of Lords is hearing the case of Debbie Purdy, concerning whether her husband will be prosecuted if he takes her overseas to commit suicide. SPUC is represented as an intervenor. The principal issue is whether the Law Lords will overturn the ruling of the High Court and the Court of Appeal ...

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