Two UK MPs intend to raise the question of a link between abortion and breast cancer in the House of Commons. Ms Claire Curtis-Thomas, member for Crosby, and Ms Geraldine Smith, member for Morecambe and Lunesdale, both of the governing Labour party, could bring up the issue in connection with the Hu...

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News, The Journal reports that the Human Tissue and Embryos bill will allow British scientists to carry out virtually any work they like, under licence from the regulating authority. The government's response to the parliamentary committee which studied the draft bill accepts the committee's propo...

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News, A university professor will advocate physician-assisted suicide (PAS) at a conference being held today in Edinburgh, Scotland, organised by the Royal College of Physicians. Professor Sheila McLean of Glasgow University told the Scotsman that PAS is already practised but under different names...

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A university professor will advocate physician-assisted suicide (PAS) at a conference being held today in Edinburgh, Scotland, organised by the Royal College of Physicians. Professor Sheila McLean of Glasgow University told the Scotsman that PAS is already practised but under different names. She cl...

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An American medical journal has published a study, entitled The Breast Cancer Epidemic, which shows that abortion is the best predictor of breast cancer. In his study, Mr Patrick Carroll of the Pension and Population Research Institute in London, UK, demonstrated a correlation between abortion rates...

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News, The Catholic Archbishop of St Louis, Missouri, has said that he would deny communion to Mr Rudy Giuliani, a prospective candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, because of the latter's support for abortion. Most Rev Raymond Burke said that a Catholic who publicly espoused positi...

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News, A representative of the Holy See has called on the United Nations to ensure that the right to human life is respected. In an address to the 62nd session of the general assembly in New York, Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with States, said: "We must work to stop and re...

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SPUC mourns the death of Mr Ian Campbell, the pro-life politician who died on the ninth of September aged 81. Mr Campbell was a Labour member of parliament from 1970 to 1987. In 1975 he co-sponsored Mr James White's bill which sought to tighten the 1967 Abortion Act. The following year, he presented...

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Medical leaders in Britain are in disagreement about proposals to extend the right of doctors to refuse treatment to which they have a conscientious objection. The General Medical Council (GMC), the doctors' disciplinary body, has issued draft guidance which says that unnecessary restrictions should...

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weekly update, 26 September to 2 October weekly update, 26 September to 2 October The Mental Capacity Act has come into force in England and Wales, giving statutory authority to advance refusals of treatment (living wills). A leading lawyer in the field has warned that medical staff who do not f...

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News, A survey for the Irish Times reveals that a majority of women believe that abortion should be legalised in that country. Of the 1,000 women questioned, 54% favour legislation that would permit abortions to be carried out. The greatest support for abortion was among young and single women, wh...

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News, The Mental Capacity Act comes into force in England and Wales today, giving statutory authority to advance refusals of treatment (living wills). A leading lawyer in the field has warned that medical staff who do not follow so-called living wills could be disciplined, if not actually prosecut...

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The Mental Capacity Act comes into force in England and Wales today, giving statutory authority to advance refusals of treatment (living wills). A leading lawyer in the field has warned that medical staff who do not follow so-called living wills could be disciplined, if not actually prosecuted. Mr J...

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The General Medical Council, which regulates doctors, has advised doctors that they need not, and in most cases should not, tell the parents of girls between 13 and 16 if they are given abortions, treatment for sexual infections, or birth control. Doctors are advised to try to persuade children betw...

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News, Catholic bishops in Connecticut have agreed to medics giving the morning-after pill to rape victims at the church's four hospitals in that state, according to a report in the Guardian. They had previously tried to fight a state law that requires the provision of the drug, marketed as "Plan B...

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News, The European Union (EU) must protect the right to life from conception, according to the Catholic Archbishop of Zadar, Croatia. Speaking at a meeting about his country's role in a united Europe, Most Rev Ivan Prenđa also said that the EU should protect families from recent legislative attack...

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The European Union (EU) must protect the right to life from conception, according to the Catholic Archbishop of Zadar, Croatia. Speaking at a meeting about his country's role in a united Europe, Most Rev Ivan Prenda also said that the EU should protect families from recent legislative attacks. John ...

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The Northern Ireland assembly is due to debate a motion which calls on the province's health minister not to make abortion any more widely available there. The proposal is sponsored by Mr Jeffrey Donaldson, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) assembly member for Lagan Valley, and Mrs Iris Robinson, DUP ...

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News, The Northern Ireland assembly is due to debate a motion which calls on the province's health minister not to make abortion any more widely available there. The proposal is sponsored by Mr Jeffrey Donaldson, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) assembly member for Lagan Valley, and Mrs Iris Robins...

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News, Muslim doctors in Britain are protesting over proposals to cause patients to die according to so-called living wills. Under the new Mental Capacity Act, patients with life-threatening diseases will be allowed to refuse life-saving treatment and give their friends and relatives the power to s...

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