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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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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