News, A psychiatry professor in Ireland has called for mental health care for women after abortion. Prof Patricia Casey, of University College and Mater Hospital, Dublin, also said that abortion providers should tell women about the mental health risks of the procedure or risk litigation. Newly pu...

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A pro-life group has criticised Senator Barack Obama for choosing as secretary of state Senator Hillary Clinton who has always voted for abortion. The Susan B Anthony List says the US president-elect's appointments are not in line with his campaign promise to find common ground on the issue. Ms Marj...

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The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which performs abortions for the state, is giving away morning-after pills and condoms ostensibly to remind teenage girls and women to stock up on birth-control for Christmas; girls under 16 could receive the items. Our source points out that one way in which ...

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News, Abortion increases women's risk of mental illness by 30%, according to research in New Zealand on more than 500 women over several decades. Otago University found higher incidence of conditions such as depression and anxiety. In New Zealand, almost all abortions are supposedly done to preven...

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Campaign promoting morning-after pills at Christmas "a despicable ploy" London, - A campaign promoting the morning-after pill this Christmas has been condemned as "a despicable ploy". The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), one of Britain's main abortion promoters and providers, will be sup...

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News, The Irish senate will next week debate a bill to ban the creation of human embryos for research and to prohibit research based on such embryos' destruction. Mr Ronan Mullen said his Stem-cell Research (Protection of Human Embryos) Bill was concerned with when life began. It includes fines of...

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The Irish senate will next week debate a bill to ban the creation of human embryos for research and to prohibit research based on such embryos' destruction. Mr Ronan Mullen said his Stem-cell Research (Protection of Human Embryos) Bill was concerned with when life began. It includes fines of up to €...

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Abortion has killed more black people than the Ku Klux Klan, according to Rev Johnny Hunter of Life Education and Resource Network, North Carolina, speaking after the election of Senator Barack Obama as US president. Rev Hunter said Planned Parenthood, which endorsed Mr Obama, was founded in order t...

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News, The Catholic bishops of the Philippines are helping to draft a population law as an alternative to a bill in the congress. The bishops' commission on family and life says the congressional bill, which would promote birth control, is unconstitutional and infringes religious rights. Some bisho...

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News, A patient's stem-cells have been used to create a part of a windpipe which was successfully transplanted to her without the need for anti-rejection drugs. British scientists removed the cells from a deceased donor's trachea and rebuilt it on the remaining collagen framework using cells from ...

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A patient's stem-cells have been used to create a part of a windpipe which was successfully transplanted to her without the need for anti-rejection drugs. British scientists removed the cells from a deceased donor's trachea and rebuilt it on the remaining collagen framework using cells from Ms Claud...

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SPUC is intervening in a case in the European Court of Human Rights where three unidentified women are arguing that Ireland's law on abortion violates human rights. SPUC has submitted observations along with the European Centre for Law and Justice on behalf of Ms Kathy Sinnott, MEP for south Ireland...

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News, SPUC is intervening in a case in the European Court of Human Rights where three unidentified women are arguing that Ireland's law on abortion violates human rights. SPUC has submitted observations along with the European Centre for Law and Justice on behalf of Ms Kathy Sinnott, MEP for south...

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News, The British government's new embryology law has been formally approved by Queen Elizabeth II. The new Act does not come into force immediately, but will be brought into force, over the coming year. [Department of Health, 13 November] The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act allows more pro...

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The British government's new embryology law has been formally approved by Queen Elizabeth II. The new Act does not come into force immediately, but will be brought into force, over the coming year. [Department of Health, 13 November] The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act allows more procedures ...

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Pro-lifers are being driven out of healthcare by pressure for abortion as a right, according to the leader of Matercare International. Dr Robert Walley, a Catholic obstetrician, told LifeSiteNews that aspiring medics were being put off his profession because of their dislike of abortion. Doctors mig...

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News, The Catholic bishops of the USA discussed abortion during their recent national meeting. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska, called the procedure a vile, intrinsic evil. Rt Rev Thomas Paprocki, auxiliary in Chicago, said that, if Catholic hospitals were forced to participate in ab...

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News, The American Catholic bishops will campaign against a pro-abortion law which the president-elect says he will sign. The bishops' annual meeting authorised Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago and conference chairman, to issue a statement opposing the Freedom of Choice Act. As well ...

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The American Catholic bishops will campaign against a pro-abortion law which the president-elect says he will sign. The bishops' annual meeting authorised Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago and conference chairman, to issue a statement opposing the Freedom of Choice Act. As well as notin...

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A leading medic in Kenya has lamented the election of Senator Barack Obama as US president. Dr Stephen Karanja, head of the Catholic Doctors' Association, said the president-elect was anti-family and a bad man, and had made unrestricted abortion a key part of his campaign. Africans were under threat...

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