News, Pope Benedict spoke of the dignity and rights of "the most defenseless of all human beings, the unborn child in the mother's womb" at Mass in Yankee Stadium, New York, NY, yesterday (Sunday). Faith was not separate from political life, he said, as he encouraged pro-life work. [Spero News, 20]...

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News, The Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly has approved a report from its equal opportunities committee which calls on 47 European states to allow unrestricted access to legal abortion and to make sex education for young people compulsory. SPUC's Patrick Buckley said: "This report, which...

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The Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly has approved a report from its equal opportunities committee which calls on 47 European states to allow unrestricted access to legal abortion and to make sex education for young people compulsory. SPUC's Patrick Buckley said: "This report, which is in f...

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Extreme pro-abortion resolution rushed through Council of Europe Strasbourg, 16th April 2008 - A resolution calling for unlimited access to abortion throughout Europe was today rushed through the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The Assembly passed the report with 102 votes in favour...

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The draft constitution for Kosovo reportedly does not to protect the unborn and pro-life activists were due to meet political and religious leaders about this. The province recently declared independence from Serbia and the proposed constitution includes "the right to make decisions in relation to r...

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News, The draft constitution for Kosovo reportedly does not to protect the unborn and pro-life activists were due to meet political and religious leaders about this. The province recently declared independence from Serbia and the proposed constitution includes "the right to make decisions in relat...

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News, A Catholic bishop has compared China to Nazi Germany. Rt Rev Joseph Devine, Bishop of Motherwell, Scotland, was speaking in the context of pro-Tibet protests during the Beijing Olympic flame's tour of Britain, The Wishaw Press reports. He said that the Chinese régime forced women to have abo...

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The Google search engine refused to carry anti-abortion advertising and the Christian Institute of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, is suing the company for religious discrimination. Google carries advertisements for abortion providers but says it has a policy against mixing abortion and religion. [Dai]...

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A Catholic bishop has compared China to Nazi Germany. Rt Rev Joseph Devine, Bishop of Motherwell, Scotland, was speaking in the context of pro-Tibet protests during the Beijing Olympic flame's tour of Britain, The Wishaw Press reports. He said that the Chinese régime forced women to have abortions a...

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The Lawyers' Christian Fellowship and Comment on Reproductive Ethics are seeking a high court judicial review of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's licence which let Newcastle university, scientists create animal-human embryos. The fellowship says the authority acted outside the l...

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News, The Lawyers' Christian Fellowship and Comment on Reproductive Ethics are seeking a high court judicial review of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's licence which let Newcastle university, scientists create animal-human embryos. The fellowship says the authority acted outsi...

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News, A Nobel prize-winning stem cell scientist has said that there is misinformation about human-animal hybrid embryos of the kind reportedly created recently. Prof Sir Martin Evans, director of the Cardiff university school of biosciences in Wales, described such embryos as "artificial construct...

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A Nobel prize-winning stem cell scientist has said that there is misinformation about human-animal hybrid embryos of the kind reportedly created recently. Prof Sir Martin Evans, director of the Cardiff university school of biosciences in Wales, described such embryos as "artificial constructs create...

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The Catholic Archbishop of Kingston has said that the Catholic Church would not support the legalisation of abortion in Jamaica. Speaking at a men's breakfast held at Stella Maris Pastoral Centre last Saturday, Archbishop Lawrence Burke said: "Scripture, tradition and science are clearly showing tha...

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News, The Catholic Archbishop of Kingston has said that the Catholic Church would not support the legalisation of abortion in Jamaica. Speaking at a men's breakfast held at Stella Maris Pastoral Centre last Saturday, Archbishop Lawrence Burke said: "Scripture, tradition and science are clearly sho...

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News, The Anglican bishop of St Albans has welcomed Gordon Brown's concession allowing Labour MPs to oppose certain elements in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, but has said that he should have made the whole bill subject to a free vote. The Right Reverend Christopher Herbert said: "I ...

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Ian Paisley, the first minister of Northern Ireland, has warned that MPs may attempt to use the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill as a way to legalise abortion in Northern Ireland. Speaking at prime minister's question time, he said: "Would you give the people of Northern Ireland the assurance...

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Churches in Britain have condemned the recent creation of human/animal hybrids. The Church of Scotland, which had already announced its opposition to the practice, expressed regret and serious concern. It also regretted that the government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) bill would legali...

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News, Churches in Britain have condemned the recent creation of human/animal hybrids. The Church of Scotland, which had already announced its opposition to the practice, expressed regret and serious concern. It also regretted that the government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) bill woul...

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SPUC again urges Blair to come clean on abortion rights London, - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has again called on Mr Tony Blair to repudiate his former government's commitment to the promotion of abortion as a human right. John Smeaton, SPUC national director, said: "M...

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