Euphemistic language and advertising are being used to try to make eugenics acceptable, according to the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Most Rev Rino Fisichella was speaking yesterday ahead of The new frontiers of genetics and the risk of eugenics, a congress hosted by the academy at ...

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News, Euphemistic language and advertising are being used to try to make eugenics acceptable, according to the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Most Rev Rino Fisichella was speaking yesterday ahead of The new frontiers of genetics and the risk of eugenics, a congress hosted by the aca...

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News, An academic scientist says clinicians suspect that IVF carries developmental risks for the children it produces. Dr Richard Schultz, associate dean for natural sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, is among several specialists calling for more research to ascertain such risks. Our sour...

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An academic scientist says clinicians suspect that IVF carries developmental risks for the children it produces. Dr Richard Schultz, associate dean for natural sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, is among several specialists calling for more research to ascertain such risks. Our source sugge...

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Family doctors in Britain will be paid extra for getting teenage girls to use long-term hormonal birth control such as injections, implants and coils. The girls' parents will not routinely be told. From next year, the physicians will be rewarded for recommending the methods when they prescribe morni...

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News, Family doctors in Britain will be paid extra for getting teenage girls to use long-term hormonal birth control such as injections, implants and coils. The girls' parents will not routinely be told. From next year, the physicians will be rewarded for recommending the methods when they prescri...

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News, The president of Italy who blocked a move to stop a woman from being starved to death has called for "collective reflection". Mr Giorgio Napolitano vetoed a decree from Mr Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, to save Eluana Englaro, 38, who died on Monday after her feeding tube had been remove...

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The president of Italy who blocked a move to stop a woman from being starved to death has called for "collective reflection". Mr Giorgio Napolitano vetoed a decree from Mr Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, to save Eluana Englaro, 38, who died on Monday after her feeding tube had been removed. Parli...

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A woman in Italy has reportedly been killed by removing her feeding tube, while the senate was debating a law to save her. Ms Eluana Englaro, 38, died yesterday in a clinic in Friuli that had volunteered to cause her death which the courts had approved. Mr Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, could no...

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News, A woman in Italy has reportedly been killed by removing her feeding tube, while the senate was debating a law to save her. Ms Eluana Englaro, 38, died yesterday in a clinic in Friuli that had volunteered to cause her death which the courts had approved. Mr Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, ...

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News, The Italian government is seeking to have tube-feeding restored to a semi-conscious woman. Mr Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, will present a law to the parliament which would require that Ms Eluana Englaro, 38, is given sustenance again after it was withdrawn on Friday (the sixth). Ms Eng...

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The Italian government is seeking to have tube-feeding restored to a semi-conscious woman. Mr Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, will present a law to the parliament which would require that Ms Eluana Englaro, 38, is given sustenance again after it was withdrawn on Friday (the sixth). Ms Englaro was...

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Nearly two fifths of family doctors in Britain support euthanasia and would assist suicides, according to a recent survey of 460 respondents described in GP magazine. Twice as many support changes to the law on assisted suicide as did five years ago. A 2004 survey found four fifths of such doctors a...

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News, Nearly two fifths of family doctors in Britain support euthanasia and would assist suicides, according to a recent survey of 460 respondents described in GP magazine. Twice as many support changes to the law on assisted suicide as did five years ago. A 2004 survey found four fifths of such d...

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News, Opinion research suggests most Americans oppose President Obama's dropping his predecessor's ban on funding of abortion overseas. The Gallup survey found more than half disagreed with the move, with around a third approving of it. [LifeSiteNews, 3 February] There is speculation that Mr Obama...

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Opinion research suggests most Americans oppose President Obama's dropping his predecessor's ban on funding of abortion overseas. The Gallup survey found more than half disagreed with the move, with around a third approving of it. [LifeSiteNews, 3 February] There is speculation that Mr Obama will ne...

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A semi-conscious woman in Italy has been moved from a clinic where staff refused to starve her to a facility which reportedly will. Demonstrators tried to obstruct the ambulance taking Ms Eluana Englaro, 37, from Lombardy to the Friuli-Venezia Giulia province in the middle of the night. She was in a...

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News, A semi-conscious woman in Italy has been moved from a clinic where staff refused to starve her to a facility which reportedly will. Demonstrators tried to obstruct the ambulance taking Ms Eluana Englaro, 37, from Lombardy to the Friuli-Venezia Giulia province in the middle of the night. She ...

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Purdy assisted suicide appeal is misguided, says intervenor SPUC Purdy assisted suicide appeal is misguided, says intervenor SPUC London, - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has been granted status as an intervenor in the case brought by Mrs Debbie Purdy against the Direc...

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News, The Pope has said that love can help confront suffering, to which euthanasia was a false solution. Benedict XVI spoke yesterday as authorities in Italy were in conflict over whether to stop feeding a semi-conscious woman. The courts have approved her killing by neglect but the health ministe...

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