British MPs are supporting a resolution in favour of counselling for women considering abortion. Mrs Angela Watkinson's parliamentary motion points out that the British Medical Association's recent conference acknowledged the psychological harm abortion could do. It welcomes proposed amendments to t...

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News, The Pope has said to an audience in Australia: "How can it be that the most wondrous and sacred human space, the womb, has become a place of unutterable violence?" Benedict XVI was addressing a World Youth Day event in Sydney and had just mentioned domestic violence. [Sydney Morning Herald, ]...

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News, Abortion is reportedly an issue in a Scottish by-election. Mr John Mason, the Scottish Nationalist Party candidate in Glasgow East, says he wants the time limit cut and he appears to oppose embryo research. Ms Margaret Curran, Labour, supports the status quo on the time limit, as does the Co...

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Abortion is reportedly an issue in a Scottish by-election. Mr John Mason, the Scottish Nationalist Party candidate in Glasgow East, says he wants the time limit cut and he appears to oppose embryo research. Ms Margaret Curran, Labour, supports the status quo on the time limit, as does the Conservati...

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The British government is today due to publish a policy on how dying people in England are to be treated. There are plans to respond to a widespread preference for dying at home. [BBC, 16 July] A television programme to be screened in Scotland tonight includes an excerpt from an Australian video abo...

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News, The British government is today due to publish a policy on how dying people in England are to be treated. There are plans to respond to a widespread preference for dying at home. [BBC, 16 July] A television programme to be screened in Scotland tonight includes an excerpt from an Australian v...

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News, The UK prime minister has reportedly stopped one of his party's MPs from proposing an extension of liberal British abortion law to Northern Ireland. It is said that Mr Gordon Brown intervened when Ms Emily Thornberry, member for Islington South and Finsbury, looked likely to propose an amend...

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The UK prime minister has reportedly stopped one of his party's MPs from proposing an extension of liberal British abortion law to Northern Ireland. It is said that Mr Gordon Brown intervened when Ms Emily Thornberry, member for Islington South and Finsbury, looked likely to propose an amendment to ...

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Abortion drugs are being sold on the internet. A survey of people who bought the substances that way suggests that around one woman in 10 needed surgery after taking them. The service reportedly only sends RU486 to countries where it deems the law against abortion to be strict; this includes Ireland...

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News, Abortion drugs are being sold on the internet. A survey of people who bought the substances that way suggests that around one woman in 10 needed surgery after taking them. The service reportedly only sends RU486 to countries where it deems the law against abortion to be strict; this includes...

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News, The report stage of the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill has been postponed from next week till the autumn. The government insists the bill is still important. The Conservative opposition suggests the government is worried about a forthcoming by-election. [BBC, 10]...

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The report stage of the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill has been postponed from next week till the autumn. The government insists the bill is still important. The Conservative opposition suggests the government is worried about a forthcoming by-election. [BBC, 10 July] S...

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Embryo bill postponement gives more time to lobby London, - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) says the Government's postponement of the report stage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill will provide more time to lobby MPs on the pro-abortion amendments which have be...

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A British pro-life group is warning that, if embryo legislation now in parliament is amended to allow abortion even more easily, yet more unborn children will die. Alive and Kicking say the annual England and Wales total could rise from the present 200,000 to a quarter of a million, and are calling ...

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News, A British pro-life group is warning that, if embryo legislation now in parliament is amended to allow abortion even more easily, yet more unborn children will die. Alive and Kicking say the annual England and Wales total could rise from the present 200,000 to a quarter of a million, and are ...

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News, Amendments to the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill proposed by MPs from the major parties would make abortion easier. The measures would mean that the grounds for abortion would be further relaxed, neighbourhood nurses could prescribe abortion drugs for use away f...

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Amendments to the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill proposed by MPs from the major parties would make abortion easier. The measures would mean that the grounds for abortion would be further relaxed, neighbourhood nurses could prescribe abortion drugs for use away from medi...

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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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