News, 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 amendme...

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News, The Pope has praised the work of those who help couples overcome infertility in an ethical way. In a recent message to a conference to mark 40 years since Pope Paul VI's encyclical on birth regulation, Benedict XVI writes: "While fully safeguarding the dignity of human procreation, some hav...

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The United States has blocked funding for Marie Stopes International (MSI) because it reportedly supports forced abortion and sterilisation in China. The Population Research Institute says that MSI, which denies the allegations, will have to cut its population control programmes in several African c...

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Lawyers for a woman with multiple sclerosis have argued that her human rights have been breached because the chief prosecutor for England and Wales has failed to make clear whether her husband would be prosecuted if he took her abroad to commit suicide. Mrs Debbie Purdy's lawyers yesterday told the ...

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News, Lawyers for a woman with multiple sclerosis have argued that her human rights have been breached because the chief prosecutor for England and Wales has failed to make clear whether her husband would be prosecuted if he took her abroad to commit suicide. Mrs Debbie Purdy's lawyers yesterday t...

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News, SPUC is taking part in an English high court hearing of a case which presents a threat to vulnerable people and could undermine the law against assisted suicide. Mrs Debbie Purdy, who has multiple sclerosis (MS), wants to know whether her husband would be prosecuted if he took her abroad to ...

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SPUC is taking part in an English high court hearing of a case which presents a threat to vulnerable people and could undermine the law against assisted suicide. Mrs Debbie Purdy, who has multiple sclerosis (MS), wants to know whether her husband would be prosecuted if he took her abroad to commit s...

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Pro-life group receives permission to intervene in Purdy assisted suicide challenge London, 2nd October 2008 - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has been given permission to intervene today in the High Court challenge launched by Debbie Purdy. SPUC will submit to the court tha...

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SPUC defends unborn at Labour conference Manchester, 30 September - Pro-life campaigners called upon delegates to last week's Labour party conference to oppose moves to widen British abortion law. Ten supporters of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) gave out leaflets in Manches...

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The head of the English and Welsh Catholic bishops' department for Christian responsibility and citizenship has asked clergy to urge their parishioners to write to their members of parliament over abortion related amendments to the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Most R...

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News, The head of the English and Welsh Catholic bishops' department for Christian responsibility and citizenship has asked clergy to urge their parishioners to write to their members of parliament over abortion related amendments to the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill...

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News, Participants in a United Nations meeting on one of the millennium development goals has called on governments to: "accelerate efforts for achieving reproductive, maternal and newborn health." Their statement pointed out that one woman died in pregnancy or childbirth every minute worldwide. []...

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Participants in a United Nations meeting on one of the millennium development goals has called on governments to: "accelerate efforts for achieving reproductive, maternal and newborn health." Their statement pointed out that one woman died in pregnancy or childbirth every minute worldwide. [Medical ]...

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Bishop of Chester becomes patron of SPUC Evangelicals London, 29 September - Rt Rev Dr Peter Forster, Bishop of Chester, has become a patron of the Evangelical division of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC). Mrs Jan Bell, chairman of SPUC Evangelicals, said: "We are very pleas...

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A British minister who is leaving the cabinet may be doing so because of her objection to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Ms Ruth Kelly MP, a Catholic, will stop being transport secretary and un-named sources reportedly say she could not have voted next month for the government's measur...

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News, A British minister who is leaving the cabinet may be doing so because of her objection to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Ms Ruth Kelly MP, a Catholic, will stop being transport secretary and un-named sources reportedly say she could not have voted next month for the government...

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News, Women under 35 who are prepared to donate their eggs will be allowed to freeze other eggs at no cost. A clinic in London, England, is offering to store the gametes as long as one egg is donated for every one frozen. The Bridge Centre says it is offering the scheme, reportedly worth £5000, be...

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The Brazilian Supreme Court could soon allow the abortion of anencephalic babies. Cardinal Odilo Scherer, Archbishop of Sao Paulo, said: "an anencephalic baby is a living human being, and for this reason [its] fragile [life] must be respected." He warned that this could lead to abortion on other gro...

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The medical ethicist who helped lay the foundation for the UK's embryology law has suggested that dementia sufferers have a duty to die. Baroness Warnock, described as the country's leading moral philosopher, says patients are a drain on national resources. She appears to want assisted suicide and/o...

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News, The medical ethicist who helped lay the foundation for the UK's embryology law has suggested that dementia sufferers have a duty to die. Baroness Warnock, described as the country's leading moral philosopher, says patients are a drain on national resources. She appears to want assisted suici...

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