Senator Barack Obama says routine maternal mental distress associated with pregnancy should not be grounds for late abortion. There needed to be a "serious physical issue". National Right to Life (NRL) cast doubt on the credibility of Mr Obama's remarks which were quoted in a magazine. [LifeNews, 4 ]...

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News, A doctor in western England who suggested to patients that they should consider alternatives to abortion has been cleared of professional misconduct. Dr Tammie Downes has persuaded some women not to go ahead with terminations. The General Medical Council investigated a complaint after Dr Dow...

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News, The final debates in the House of Commons of the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill are likely to take place on Monday-week (the 14th) [Leader of the House of Commons, 3 July]. Amendments to the bill could remove safeguards on abortion, such as a second doctor's si...

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The final debates in the House of Commons of the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill are likely to take place on Monday-week (the 14th) [Leader of the House of Commons, 3 July]. Amendments to the bill could remove safeguards on abortion, such as a second doctor's signature a...

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Reject pro abortion amendments, SPUC urges MPs Reject pro-abortion amendments, SPUC urges MPs London, - MPs should vote against any amendments widening access to abortion, urges the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC). The amendments have been tabled at the final stages of the ...

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A pro-life group is challenging Senator Barack Obama over his telling a church congregation: "We need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn't just end at conception." The lobbying wing of the Family Research Council (FRC) is placing a television advertisement showing Mr Obama's remark, and ...

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News, A pro-life group is challenging Senator Barack Obama over his telling a church congregation: "We need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn't just end at conception." The lobbying wing of the Family Research Council (FRC) is placing a television advertisement showing Mr Obama's rema...

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News, It is said that Ms Ruth Kelly MP, a Catholic cabinet minister, has been given permission to be absent overseas and, thus, abstain from voting on the UK government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. The other two Catholics in the cabinet are expected to toe the party line. [Times, 1 J]...

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It is said that Ms Ruth Kelly MP, a Catholic cabinet minister, has been given permission to be absent overseas and, thus, abstain from voting on the UK government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. The other two Catholics in the cabinet are expected to toe the party line. [Times, 1 July, and]...

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The Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly today approved a resolution which contains pro-abortion language. The resolution and its accompanying report on abandonment at birth promotes "legal and easier access to sexual rights and reproductive health services" such as "contraception and abortion...

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News, The Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly today approved a resolution which contains pro-abortion language. The resolution and its accompanying report on abandonment at birth promotes "legal and easier access to sexual rights and reproductive health services" such as "contraception and ...

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News, Birth control pills and morning-after pills have no major role in preventing abortions, according to the head of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, New Jersey. Professor James Trussell told a British Pregnancy Advisory Service conference that women were negligent in h...

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Two medical students will skydive 10,000 feet on Saturday to raise awareness of the pressure on medical staff to take part in abortion against their consciences. Miss Siobhan Fearon and Miss Abigail Smith, both 19, will do the parachute jump in Lancashire, England. Miss Smith writes: "I had to help ...

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A new, non-invasive prenatal test for Down's syndrome is reportedly being developed. Work is being done in England and Hong Kong on a blood-test for which 90% accuracy is claimed. [Telegraph, 21 June] Alison Davis of SPUC's No Less Human group said: "The new non-invasive test for Down's syndrome wil...

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News, A Catholic magazine has called for the excommunication of Poland's health minister after she helped a 14-year-old girl get an abortion. After hospitals in Lublin and Warsaw refused to do a termination, Ms Ewa Kopacz found one which would. Archbishop Tadeusz Gocłowski of Gdańsk said everyone ...

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News, Almost 1,000 British secondary schools offer so-called sexual health programmes some of which include the provision of morning-after pills, contraception and pregnancy tests. Most secondary school pupils are under the age of consent and some are just 11. Schools were surveyed by the mainly t...

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Sex-selective abortion is widely practised in India with ultrasound scans routinely used to determine the sex of the child. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health heard in London yesterday that there were an estimated 35 million missing girls in India. O...

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A draft resolution on child abandonment to be debated by the Council of Europe contains pro-abortion language. The resolution and its accompanying report promotes "legal and easier access to sexual rights and reproductive health services" such as "contraception and abortion". It is to be considered,...

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News, A draft resolution on child abandonment to be debated by the Council of Europe contains pro-abortion language. The resolution and its accompanying report promotes "legal and easier access to sexual rights and reproductive health services" such as "contraception and abortion". It is to be con...

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News, Abortions in England and Wales last year were the highest ever. SPUC blames the government's policy of fast-tracking. John Smeaton said: "The figures reflect the Department of Health's (DH) policy of performing an abortion as quickly as possible on any woman enquiring. The policy includes ar...

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