A court in India has rejected a couple's request to abort their child of 25 weeks' gestation. Mumbai's high court declined Mr and Mrs Mehta's petition after a medical committee said the baby was unlikely to be disabled. Other doctors diagnosed blockage in the heart. The committee also cited risks to...

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An unborn child with blockages in the heart is threatened with abortion in India. Mr and Mrs Harshad Meta have asked the high court in Mumbai for permission to abort their baby of 25 weeks' gestation. Indian law reportedly allows abortion up to 20 weeks and disability is not grounds at any stage of ...

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News, The British opposition party is due to say that it will cut teenage pregnancy by encouraging young men to act more responsibly. Mr Michael Gove MP, Conservative education spokesman, is also expected to ask publishers of magazines aimed at young men to consider the consequences of the way the...

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News, SPUC has warned of the dangers of a victory for Senator Barack Obama in the US presidential elections. John Smeaton, national director, points out that Mr Obama will resume funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) which supports forced abortion overseas. He writes: "Reinstating...

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SPUC has warned of the dangers of a victory for Senator Barack Obama in the US presidential elections. John Smeaton, national director, points out that Mr Obama will resume funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) which supports forced abortion overseas. He writes: "Reinstating funding...

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A United Nations body is pressing the United Kingdom to extend Britain's liberal abortion law to Northern Ireland. The Committee for the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) calls for a consultation on the matter and urges the UK: "to give consideration to the amendm...

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News, A United Nations body is pressing the United Kingdom to extend Britain's liberal abortion law to Northern Ireland. The Committee for the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) calls for a consultation on the matter and urges the UK: "to give consideration to th...

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UN treaty body a threat to human rights Belfast, - Pro-life campaigners in Northern Ireland have attacked a report issued by a United Nations committee calling for the liberalisation of abortion law in Northern Ireland and warned that the committee was a threat to genuine human rights. Betty Gibson...

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News, The deaths of 42 patients in British state hospitals last year were linked to poor nutrition, and reports of non-fatal instances of patient malnutrition have almost doubled in two years. The National Patient Safety Agency found that one patient was dehydrated to death and two died because of...

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The deaths of 42 patients in British state hospitals last year were linked to poor nutrition, and reports of non-fatal instances of patient malnutrition have almost doubled in two years. The National Patient Safety Agency found that one patient was dehydrated to death and two died because of inappro...

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The United Nations general assembly has unanimously approved the appointment as human rights commissioner of a South African judge who may support abortion. [Irish Times, 29 July] Ms Navanethem Pillay reportedly said about her country's constitution: "I wondered why the right to life was stated so e...

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News, The United Nations general assembly has unanimously approved the appointment as human rights commissioner of a South African judge who may support abortion. [Irish Times, 29 July] Ms Navanethem Pillay reportedly said about her country's constitution: "I wondered why the right to life was sta...

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News, The European Court of Human Rights is to hear a challenge to Ireland's restrictive abortion law. Three anonymous Irish women claim their health and wellbeing are undermined because they would need to travel abroad for abortion. They cite the European Convention on Human Rights, including its...

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The European Court of Human Rights is to hear a challenge to Ireland's restrictive abortion law. Three anonymous Irish women claim their health and wellbeing are undermined because they would need to travel abroad for abortion. They cite the European Convention on Human Rights, including its prohibi...

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The United Nations is pressing Ireland over its restrictive abortion law. The UN's human rights committee expressed concern and noted that what it calls progress was slow. [Irish Times, 25 July] Patrick Buckley of European Life Network, Dublin, writes: "This is yet another example of an 'out of cont...

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News, A Vatican prelate has urged the world's Anglican leaders to resist the culture of death. Cardinal Ivan Dias, head of the congregation for evangelisation, was addressing the 10-yearly Lambeth conference in Kent, England. He advocated Christian unity in the face of abortion and other social il...

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News, President Sarkozy of France, the European Union's current president, has reportedly softened his message on requiring Ireland to vote again on a measure which could affect Irish abortion law. In Dublin he said he did not want to push the people into anything over ratification of the Lisbon t...

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A main supporter of a proposed measure which would liberalise abortion in Northern Ireland has said that women in the province are second-class citizens. Ms Diane Abbott MP points out that women from Northern Ireland travel to Britain for abortion because of restrictive laws. She claims others resor...

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There is a proposal in the UK parliament to extend Britain's liberal abortion regime to Northern Ireland. Ms Diane Abbott, Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, England, and colleagues from other parties have tabled an amendment to the government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill....

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News, There is a proposal in the UK parliament to extend Britain's liberal abortion régime to Northern Ireland. Ms Diane Abbott, Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, England, and colleagues from other parties have tabled an amendment to the government's Human Fertilisation and Embryolo...

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