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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News, The Pope has emphasised that it is for God to decide when people die. Speaking in Lourdes, France, he said that seriously ill people should pray that they might accept death at a time of God's choosing. Benedict XVI also called for employers to give staff time off work to be with dying relat...

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A woman in England with leukaemia is being treated with umbilical cord blood, according to a newspaper feature which marks the opening this week of a repository for such material. Ms Lita Jempson, who received chemotherapy, says she feels much better. The Anthony Nolan Trust, which is hosting the ti...

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Prenatal tests for Down's syndrome are more dangerous than has been thought. Research by Down's Syndrome Education International suggests that 400 unborn children who did not have the condition miscarried during a process which diagnosed 660 Down's babies who were aborted. The study's report, publis...

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News, The Republican vice-presidential nominee reportedly differs from the party's presidential candidate on embryo-research. Mrs Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, told an interviewer that she opposed US federal funding for such work, while Senator John McCain appears to support it. Mrs Palin said ...

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News, American Catholic bishops have said that life issues are a top priority for voters. Most Rev Joseph Naumann, Archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas, and Rt Rev Robert Finn, Bishop of Kansas City - St Joseph, write: "A properly formed conscience must give such issues [as abortion, euthanasia and h]...

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SPUC has compared Marie Stopes, the British birth control promoter (1880-1958), to Adolf Hitler, after she was commemorated on a postage stamp. Anthony Ozimic, political secretary, said: "Praising Marie Stopes as a woman of distinction should be as unacceptable as praising Adolf Hitler as a great le...

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Senator John McCain, the Republican party's candidate for US president, has reiterated his opposition to the 1973 supreme court ruling in the Roe v Wade case, which declared abortion to be a constitutional right. Mr McCain told Glamour magazine that he would seek to have the decision reversed. Mr Mc...

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News, Senator John McCain, the Republican party's candidate for US president, has reiterated his opposition to the 1973 supreme court ruling in the Roe v Wade case, which declared abortion to be a constitutional right. Mr McCain told Glamour magazine that he would seek to have the decision reverse...

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Northern Ireland abortion law protects women and children Belfast, - Calls by the pro-abortion lobby to extend the Abortion Act to Northern Ireland have been rejected by pro-life advocates in the Province. Speaking about the latest attempt to impose the Act on Northern Ireland, Betty Gibson, chairw...

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US candidates "have abandoned reason" Derbyshire, - Both American presidential candidates have been criticised by a leading US scientist for their abandonment of reason regarding respect for innocent human life. Dr James Sherley, Boston Biomedical Research Institute's senior scientist, exposed the ...

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News, A US senator has referred to his pro-life views at the Democrat party convention. Mr Robert Casey briefly mentioned his "honest disagreement" over abortion with Senator Barack Obama, presidential nominee. Mr Casey's eponymous late father was prevented from addressing the 1992 convention, pos...

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A US senator has referred to his pro-life views at the Democrat party convention. Mr Robert Casey briefly mentioned his "honest disagreement" over abortion with Senator Barack Obama, presidential nominee. Mr Casey's eponymous late father was prevented from addressing the 1992 convention, possibly be...

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Republicans could amend the US constitution to ban abortion. A draft policy document reiterates a current pledge to protect human life from conception and proposes help for women considering abortion. A poll found two fifths of voters considered abortion policy when voting. Another survey found most...

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News, Republicans could amend the US constitution to ban abortion. A draft policy document reiterates a current pledge to protect human life from conception and proposes help for women considering abortion. A poll found two fifths of voters considered abortion policy when voting. Another survey fo...

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News, The Catholic Archbishop of Denver, Colorado, has told the Democrat candidate for US vice-president to avoid taking holy communion because of his support for abortion. Cardinal Charles Chaput said he hoped to meet privately with Senator Joe Biden to persuade him either to change his views or ...

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The Democrat party's convention yesterday approved a pro-abortion policy with little apparent dissent. Language calling for abortion to be made rare had been removed. National Right to Life pointed out that more than two fifths of party supporters opposed many if not all abortions. [LifeNews, 25 Aug]...

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A member of the American Psychological Association has criticised that organisation's survey of the effects of abortion on women's mental health, saying it is politically motivated and bad science. The project concluded that a single early abortion did not increase the likelihood of significant ment...

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