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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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....

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
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...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
Belfast, - Extreme pro-abortion MPs at Westminster have launched a bid to impose abortion on Northern Ireland. MPs for five English and one Scottish constituency have tabled an amendment to extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland, via the government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology bil...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
News, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, has highlighted the issues of abortion and embryo experimentation in the run-up to this week's by-election in Glasgow East, Scotland. Cardinal O'Brien said: "We are facing a crisis in society and we must ask ourselves ...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
A nurse administered an abortion drug to the wrong woman, a disciplinary hearing found last Friday. Ann Downer, a nurse at the Calthorpe abortion centre in Birmingham, England, failed to check the woman's identity before administering misoprostol, which induces a miscarriage. Mrs Downer received a c...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
Page 285 of 451First   Previous   280  281  282  283  284  [285]  286  287  288  289  Next   Last   
Share to Facebook
Tweet to your followers
Copy link
Share via email

 

Get the latest...

Pro-Life News, Political Action Alerts, Stories of Hope.

Stay informed as together we advance the human right to life.

Twitter/XFacebookInstagramYouTubeTikTokTelegram