SPUC deplores MPs' complaints about abortion debate SPUC deplores MPs' complaints about abortion debate London, 21 October - SPUC has expressed its distaste at complaints from pro-abortion MPs that abortion may not be debated in the House of Commons tomorrow. John Smeaton, SPUC national director...

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The British government could prevent amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill concerning abortion from being debated in parliament tomorrow. Dr Evan Harris MP, Liberal Democrat, said it would be disgraceful if it happened. [Daily Mail, 21 October, and Guardian, 21 October] John Smea...

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News, The British government could prevent amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill concerning abortion from being debated in parliament tomorrow. Dr Evan Harris MP, Liberal Democrat, said it would be disgraceful if it happened. [Daily Mail, 21 October, and Guardian, 21 October] J...

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News, More than 80 academics have signed a letter calling for abortion to be available in Britain without the present requirement for two doctors' permission. The lawyers and ethicists cite increasing patient autonomy and write: "[W]hile achieving fewer and earlier abortions is a goal shared by al...

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More than 80 academics have signed a letter calling for abortion to be available in Britain without the present requirement for two doctors' permission. The lawyers and ethicists cite increasing patient autonomy and write: "[W]hile achieving fewer and earlier abortions is a goal shared by all, there...

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SPUC says assisted suicide puts pressure on vulnerable London, 17 October - SPUC has commented on the case of the late Mr Dan James, aged 23, who committed suicide with the help of Dignitas in Switzerland. Anthony Ozimic, political secretary, said: "The availability of assisted suicide creates press...

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The Family Planning Association is using four computer-based videos to try to persuade MPs to extend British abortion law to Northern Ireland. Subjects of the one-minute films include a woman with an ill unborn child and another who was told her pregnancy would cause her to go blind. FPA Northern Ir...

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News, fpa, formerly the Family Planning Association, is using four computer-based videos to try to persuade MPs to extend British abortion law to Northern Ireland. Subjects of the one-minute films include a woman with an ill unborn child and another who was told her pregnancy would cause her to go...

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News, An archbishop has reportedly approved an ethical code for a Catholic hospital which does not prohibit referral for abortion. Dr Luke Gormally, honorary research fellow at the Linacre Centre, London, is quoted as writing that Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, sanctio...

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Catholic bishops in Texas say that abortion is the principal issue in next month's election. Bishop Kevin Farrell of Dallas and Bishop Kevin Vann of Fort Worth write: "We cannot make [clearer] the seriousness of the overriding issue of abortion - while not the 'only issue' - it is the defining moral...

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An advocate of assisted suicide reportedly displayed a suffocation bag at a public meeting in London, England, yesterday. Dr Philip Nitschke is also said to have told participants how to get poisonous drugs, as he launched an online version of a book on the subject which is banned in his native Aust...

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News, An advocate of assisted suicide reportedly displayed a suffocation bag at a public meeting in London, England, yesterday. Dr Philip Nitschke is also said to have told participants how to get poisonous drugs, as he launched an online version of a book on the subject which is banned in his nat...

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News, The Republican candidate for US vice president has criticised the Democrat presidential nominee for a remark he made about abortion. Mrs Sarah Palin recalled how Senator Barack Obama had spoken of how he would not want his daughters "punished with a baby" if they had an unwanted pregnancy. M...

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The Republican candidate for US vice president has criticised the Democrat presidential nominee for a remark he made about abortion. Mrs Sarah Palin recalled how Senator Barack Obama had spoken of how he would not want his daughters "punished with a baby" if they had an unwanted pregnancy. Mr Obama ...

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The UK parliament is due to debate the government's embryology proposals on Wednesday-week. The House of Commons report stage and third reading of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is scheduled for the 22nd. [Leader of the House of Commons, 9 October] Mr Nigel Dodds, Democratic Unionist MP...

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News, The UK parliament is due to debate the government's embryology proposals on Wednesday-week. The House of Commons report stage and third reading of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is scheduled for the 22nd. [Leader of the House of Commons, 9 October] Mr Nigel Dodds, Democratic Uni...

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MPs must reject more abortion on 22 October London, - Thousands of people around the country are urging their MPs to vote against pro-abortion amendments when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill returns to the House of Commons on Wednesday 22 October. Radical pro-abortion MPs have tabled am...

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News, An amendment to the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill would require scientific proof that human and human/animal embryos were the only way of achieving a research objective. It comes from Mr David Burrowes, Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate. [House of Commons, ]...

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A local authority in southern England has banned a lecture on how to commit suicide. Bournemouth council, Dorset, cancelled a booking of one of its halls for a talk by Dr Philip Nitschke of Australia. Advance publicity suggested he would exhibit a bag for suffocation and poisonous drugs. He hopes to...

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British parliamentarians are proposing a measure which would introduce a seven-day cooling-off period before abortion, during which women would be told about the risks of terminating pregnancy and of childbirth. Mr Edward Leigh MP, Conservative, is the first of five signatories to an amendment to th...

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