The president of the US Catholic bishops' conference wants Catholics to lobby the Department of Health and Human Services in support of medical workers' protection of conscience. Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago, issued the call to action as the Obama administration considers reversing...

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The senate of Georgia, USA, has passed a bill to ban the creation of human embryos for research. Republicans removed a measure granting personhood to embryos to get the law through. The state governor supports the measure which also needs to be approved by the other legislative chamber. President Ob...

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News, The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life has criticised excommunications which were announced after the abortion of twins belonging to a nine-year-old girl in Brazil. Archbishop Rino Fisichella opposes the decision by Most Rev José Cardoso Sobrinho, Archbishop of Recife, to exclude m...

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News, British MPs were today due to debate a proposal to presume patients' consent for organ donation. The British Medical Association has welcomed the bill launched by Mr Jeremy Browne, Liberal Democrat MP for Taunton. [Healthcare Republic, 13 March] MPs are also calling for a debate on assisted ...

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MPs are calling for a debate on assisted suicide. One hundred members have now signed a motion proposed in December by Mr David Winnick, Labour MP for Walsall North. They want the law to be changed through the Coroners and Justice Bill which the House of Commons will debate again the week after next...

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After President Obama lifted his predecessor's ban on federal funding for research on new human embryonic cell lines, the Catholic bishops' pro-life committee has called the move a sad victory of politics over science and ethics. Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia and committee chair...

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News, After President Obama lifted his predecessor's ban on federal funding for research on new human embryonic cell lines, the Catholic bishops' pro-life committee has called the move a sad victory of politics over science and ethics. Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia and committ...

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Obama administration proposes pro abortion agenda at UN meeting, reports SPUC Obama administration proposes pro-abortion agenda at UN meeting, reports SPUC United Nations headquarters, New York, - President Obama's new administration has joined forces with extreme pro-abortion campaigners to pu...

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Obama funding for embryo research undermines rights and medicine, says SPUC Obama funding for embryo research undermines rights and medicine, says SPUC London, - Abusing and destroying human embryos does not help patients, nor does it advance science, says the Society for the Protection of Unbo...

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News, President Obama is expected today to reverse his predecessor's ban on federal funding for destructive research on new human embryonic stem cell lines. After he signs an executive order, Congress is expected to pass a similar measure. Harvard Stem Cell Institute welcomed the move. The work ma...

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President Obama is expected today to reverse his predecessor's ban on federal funding for destructive research on new human embryonic stem cell lines. After he signs an executive order, Congress is expected to pass a similar measure. Harvard Stem Cell Institute welcomed the move. The work may be fun...

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A Labour MP who unsuccessfully tried in 1975 to amend British abortion law has died. Mr James White sought to make abortion harder to obtain, and to prevent embryo research. SPUC organised a 50,000-strong rally in support of his bill. His party in Glasgow Pollok passed a motion of no confidence in h...

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News, A fertility practitioner says that three cloned babies were born nine years ago and now live in eastern Europe. Dr Severino Antinori of Italy claims that nuclear transfer was used to produce two boys and a girl from three sterile fathers. [Telegraph, 3 March] Mexico could require healthcare ...

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News, A fertility clinic in California is offering to let parents choose their IVF children's gender as well as the colour of eyes, hair and/or skin. The Fertility Institutes in Los Angeles will use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis three days after fertilisation. Their so-called cosmetic medicin...

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A pro-abortion governor is set to be President Obama's health secretary. Ms Kathleen Sebelius, governor of Kansas, was last year asked by Most Rev Joseph Naumann, Archbishop of Kansas City, not to go to communion until she publicly repented of her anti-life views. The Catholic Family and Human Right...

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Abortions on teenagers in Britain are higher than ever with more than 21,000 under-18s having the procedure in 2007. Pregnancies among under-16s increased by 6.4%. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service said it was a positive sign that more than half of pregnant teenagers had had an abortion because...

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News, Abortions on teenagers in Britain are higher than ever with more than 21,000 under-18s having the procedure in 2007. Pregnancies among under-16s increased by 6.4%. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service said it was a positive sign that more than half of pregnant teenagers had had an abortion...

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News, Arkansas has banned partial birth abortion. Ms Dawn Creekmore, a Democrat, sponsored the bill which was decisively approved by both legislative houses and signed by Mr Mike Beebe, state governor. Planned Parenthood wanted the measure to allow the procedure if a mother's health was threatened...

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Arkansas has banned partial-birth abortion. Ms Dawn Creekmore, a Democrat, sponsored the bill which was decisively approved by both legislative houses and signed by Mr Mike Beebe, state governor. Planned Parenthood wanted the measure to allow the procedure if a mother's health was threatened. The As...

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SPUC is urging the British prime minister to stop schools from being used to give access to abortion. The preamble to SPUC's petition to Mr Gordon Brown points out that the government is establishing school-based health and sex clinics in all secondary schools. It is also giving school nurses and ad...

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