Members of the British cabinet will be permitted to vote against their government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, according to the Telegraph. Catholic MPs and members of the cabinet, Ms Ruth Kelly, transport secretary, and Mr Des Browne, defence secretary, are said to object to the propos...

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News, Members of the British cabinet will be permitted to vote against their government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, according to the Telegraph. Catholic MPs and members of the cabinet, Ms Ruth Kelly, transport secretary, and Mr Des Browne, defence secretary, are said to object to th...

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News, A senior UN official has had his impartiality on abortion challenged during the current Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr Amr Roshdy, Egypt's delegate to the council, yesterday pointed out that the Centre for Reproductive Rights' website describes Mr Paul Hunt, UN speci...

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A senior UN official has had his impartiality on abortion challenged during the current Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr Amr Roshdy, Egypt's delegate to the council, yesterday pointed out that the Centre for Reproductive Rights' website describes Mr Paul Hunt, UN special rappo...

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weekly update, 12 December weekly update, 12 December The state health service in England has been running a pilot project which could lead to family doctors giving girls and women abortion-inducing drugs up to the ninth week of pregnancy. The government has confirmed that trials are happening i...

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The British government could let pharmacists supply birth control pills without a prescription. [PA on Channel 4, 12 December] John Smeaton, SPUC national director, said: "This is all part and parcel of the government's massive attack on human life and of their total disregard for the health care of...

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News, The British government could let pharmacists supply birth control pills without a prescription. [PA on Channel 4, 12 December] John Smeaton, SPUC national director, said: "This is all part and parcel of the government's massive attack on human life and of their total disregard for the health...

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Off-prescription birth control pills are "attack on human life" London, - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has attacked government plans to allow birth control pills to be supplied without prescription. "This is all part and parcel of the government's massive attack on human...

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SPUC expresses fears over government's schools strategy SPUC expresses fears over government's schools strategy London, - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has described aspects of the government's new schools strategy as "another ratcheting-up of the targeting of young p...

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News, The British embryo licensing authority has said that it will not ban multiple embryo IVF treatment. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has instead announced a national strategy involving guidelines drawn up by professional groups in an attempt to reduce the rates of mult...

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Women who have had an abortion are more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs, according to an Australian study. Researchers from the University of Queensland studied 1,122 young women, one third of whom had had an abortion. They found that this one third was three times more likely to have abused metha...

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The state health service in England has been running a pilot project which could lead to family doctors giving girls and women abortion-inducing drugs up to the ninth week of pregnancy. The government has confirmed that trials are happening in two places, though it will not say where. Mr Phil Willis...

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News, The state health service in England has been running a pilot project which could lead to family doctors giving girls and women abortion-inducing drugs up to the ninth week of pregnancy. The government has confirmed that trials are happening in two places, though it will not say where. Mr Phi...

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News, An amendment that would remove foetal abnormality as a ground for abortion has been tabled in the House of Lords. Baroness Masham of Ilton, who is disabled, has proposed the amendment to the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in order to remove the discrimination th...

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An amendment that would remove foetal abnormality as a ground for abortion has been tabled in the House of Lords. Baroness Masham of Ilton, who is disabled, has proposed the amendment to the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in order to remove the discrimination that allow...

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weekly update, 5 December weekly update, 5 December An amendment that would remove foetal abnormality as a ground for abortion has been tabled in the House of Lords. Baroness Masham of Ilton, who is disabled, has proposed the amendment to the British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryolo...

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SPUC criticises plan for GP surgery abortion London, - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has criticised the British government over its reported trials of providing abortion through family doctors' surgeries. John Smeaton, SPUC's national director, said: "This is all part of...

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Public healthcare officials in the UK have authorised prescribing the morning-after pill, which may cause abortion, for girls as young as 12 without parental knowledge, the Daily Express claims. 84% of National Health Service primary care trusts (PCTs) say that they permit secret prescription of the...

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News, A Northern Ireland member of the House of Lords has called on the UK government to resist any attempts to extend the 1967 Abortion Act to the province. Speaking against the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, Baroness Paisley of St George's reminded the house of previous assurances that...

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News, The Archbishop of Birmingham, UK, has spoken out against the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, presently before parliament. Speaking at the annual civic Mass in the city's St Chad's Cathedral, Archbishop Vincent Nichols said that allowing two women to register as a child's parents wou...

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