News, The pregnancy-rate among under-18s in England and Wales rose by at least 2.7% between 2006 and last year. Government figures suggest that, while 40.9 girls in every 1,000 got pregnant in 2006, 42 did so last year. Some 1,200 more girls became pregnant last year than the year before and Brita...

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News, The Catholic church has repeated its disapproval of human embryo research, cloning, embryo selection and artificial reproduction. Dignitas Personae also opposes the freezing of embryos. [Washington Post, 12 December] The text includes: "In virtue of the Church's doctrinal and pastoral missio...

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The Catholic Church has repeated its disapproval of human embryo research, cloning, embryo selection and artificial reproduction. Dignitas Personae also opposes the freezing of embryos. [Washington Post, 12 December] The text includes: "In virtue of the Church's doctrinal and pastoral mission, the C...

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The British prime minister has said that people should never feel pressure to seek death. Mr Gordon Brown MP yesterday said to the House of Commons: "It is necessary to ensure that there is never a case in which a sick or elderly person feels under pressure to agree to an assisted death or that it i...

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News, The British prime minister has said that people should never feel pressure to seek death. Mr Gordon Brown MP yesterday said to the House of Commons: "It is necessary to ensure that there is never a case in which a sick or elderly person feels under pressure to agree to an assisted death or t...

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News, British television will tonight show an American man with motor neurone disease committing suicide at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland. Mr Craig Ewert, 59, who lived in North Yorkshire, England, drinks barbiturates prescribed by a doctor and is dead in 30 minutes. [Sky, 10 December] Mrs Ma...

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British television will tonight show an American man with motor neurone disease committing suicide at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland. Mr Craig Ewert, 59, who lived in North Yorkshire, England, drinks barbiturates prescribed by a doctor and is dead in 30 minutes. [Sky, 10 December] Mrs Mary Ewert...

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Prescription free birth control scheme based on failed ideas, says SPUC Prescription-free birth control scheme based on failed ideas, says SPUC London, - A trial to supply hormonal birth control without prescription has been condemned as based on previous failed schemes. Paul Tully, general se...

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SPUC concerned at Sky assisted suicide documentary London, - Concern has been expressed about the ethics of tonight's Sky documentary which follows the assisted suicide of a man at the Dignitas suicide centre in Switzerland. Anthony Ozimic, political secretary of the Society for the Protection of ...

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The British government is trying to conceal statistics about late abortions on children with conditions such as club foot and cleft palate which can often be corrected by surgery. The health ministry is refusing to obey the government's information commissioner, saying that doing so would allow moth...

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News, The British government is trying to conceal statistics about late abortions on children with conditions such as club foot and cleft palate which can often be corrected by surgery. The health ministry is refusing to obey the government's information commissioner, saying that doing so would al...

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News, A member of the Scottish parliament who has Parkinson's disease was today due to issue a consultation paper which could lead to the legalisation of assisted suicide. Ms Margo MacDonald, independent member for Lothians, has made a programme about terminal illness to be shown on BBC television...

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A member of the Scottish parliament who has Parkinson's disease was today due to issue a consultation paper which could lead to the legalisation of assisted suicide. Ms Margo MacDonald, independent member for Lothians, has made a programme about terminal illness to be shown on BBC television tonight...

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An expert on the effects of abortion on women says a survey which claims that the procedure does no psychological harm is flawed. Dr Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State University, Ohio, claims the Johns Hopkins University report excludes major studies of how abortion can cause drug and alcohol...

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News, An expert on the effects of abortion on women says a survey which claims that the procedure does no psychological harm is flawed. Dr Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State University, Ohio, claims the Johns Hopkins University report excludes major studies of how abortion can cause drug and...

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News, A British government bill will deal with assisted suicide. The Coroners and Justice Bill, announced yesterday at the start of the parliamentary year, would reportedly modernise the law "to increase public understanding". [BBC, 3 December] SPUC wants the government to confirm that its plans a...

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A British abortion provider has made a DVD aimed at schoolchildren aged 14 and above. The Family Planning Association's film has nine case histories of women and men involved with abortion. The association wants pupils who watch the disk to know that older women, as well as teenagers, have abortions...

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Concern about government plans to clarify suicide law London, - It has been reported that the government plans to use its Coroners and Justice bill to clarify the law on assisted suicide. SPUC is calling on the government to give an assurance that its plans are limited to its stated aims of prevent...

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British-based scientists hope they can rebuild damaged heart tissue by growing patients' muscle-building progenitor cells in the laboratory. The Imperial College London work is being described as potentially reducing the need for transplantation. Hearts cannot heal themselves and transplants are a r...

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News, British-based scientists hope they can rebuild damaged heart tissue by growing patients' muscle-building progenitor cells in the laboratory. The Imperial College London work is being described as potentially reducing the need for transplantation. Hearts cannot heal themselves and transplants...

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