News, Private IVF clinics in the UK are offering infertile couples unproven and expensive treatments because they are so desperate for business, one of Britain's leading foetal medicine experts has claimed. Professor Charles Rodeck, of University College Hospital, London, told the Observer newspap...

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News, The United Kingdom government says it has no plans to change Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law and would expect the province's assembly to take over legislation in this area. Mr Paul Goggins MP, a UK minister responsible for Northern Ireland, declared the policy in written answers ...

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The United Kingdom government says it has no plans to change Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law and would expect the province's assembly to take over legislation in this area. Mr Paul Goggins MP, a UK minister responsible for Northern Ireland, declared the policy in written answers to MPs' ...

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Cautious welcome for Northern Ireland abortion law statement Belfast, 19 July - Pro-life campaigners in Northern Ireland have given a cautious welcome to the statement by the British government that it has no plans to introduce liberal abortion to the Province but the Society for the Protection of U...

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Women in Scotland should be offered abortions quickly, under a series of state health service draft guidelines. People with problems such as acute sexually-transmitted infections and women wanting emergency contraception should be referred for treatment within 48 hours, it is suggested. Most women s...

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News, Women in Scotland should be offered abortions quickly, under a series of state health service draft guidelines. People with problems such as acute sexually-transmitted infections and women wanting emergency contraception should be referred for treatment within 48 hours, it is suggested. Most...

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weekly update, 11 to 17 July weekly update, 11 to 17 July Proposals to merge the British fertility and embryology regulators have met with criticism from doctors and scientists. The merger between the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Human Tissue Authority was proposed by the...

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Campaigners in Britain have voiced concern that provision of the abortifacient morning-after pill to young girls is likely to encourage teenagers to have sex. Responding to news that girls as young as 11 can now be given the pill without their parents' knowledge, Mr Norman Wells, director of Family ...

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News, Proposals to merge the British fertility and embryology regulators have met with criticism from doctors and scientists. The merger between the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Human Tissue Authority was proposed by the Department of Health in 2004 in order to cut costs. T...

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News, Catholic pregnancy counselling charities in Ireland may lose their state financial support as they have not yet signed a new contract with the government funding agency. By signing the contract with the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA), CURA and Life would be forced to give women leaflets conta...

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Pro-life pregnancy counselling charities in Ireland may lose their state financial support as they have not yet signed a new contract with the government funding agency. By signing the contract with the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA), CURA and Life would be forced to give women leaflets containing th...

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The British doctor who was recently cleared by the General Medical Council of misconduct in hastening the deaths of two terminally ill babies has called for more debate on issues surrounding the end of life. Dr Michael Munro said after the hearing in Manchester: "I very much regret any distress caus...

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News, The British doctor who was recently cleared by the General Medical Council of misconduct in hastening the deaths of two terminally ill babies has called for more debate on issues surrounding the end of life. Dr Michael Munro said after the hearing in Manchester: "I very much regret any distr...

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News, The British government has confirmed that it supports population control in Africa. Speaking in the House of Lords, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon said: "The Government are committed to improving sexual and reproductive health, including family planning, across Africa. In 2006, [the Department ]...

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The British government has confirmed that it supports population control in Africa. Speaking in the House of Lords, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon said: "The Government are committed to improving sexual and reproductive health, including family planning, across Africa. In 2006, [the Department for Inte]...

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weekly update, 4 to 10 July weekly update, 4 to 10 July The British government has confirmed that it supports population control in Africa. Speaking in the House of Lords, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon said: "The Government are committed to improving sexual and reproductive health, including famil...

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Members of the European Parliament have called on member states to legalise euthanasia in response to what they call public demand to be given individual choice. At a hearing in Brussels, UK Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies said euthanasia should not be a question of health policy but of human righ...

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News, Cardinal Keith O'Brien has urged new prime minister, Gordon Brown, to order an urgent review of Britain's abortion laws. Writing in today's Scotsman, the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh described Mr Brown as a "man of principle and deeply-held moral convictions" but called on him to t...

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News, The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is incompetent and arrogant, and should be scrapped, IVF doctor Lord Robert Winston said yesterday. The call comes after raids on the clinic of Mohamed Taranissi, a fertility doctor who has been accused of offering expensive, unproven t...

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The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is incompetent and arrogant, and should be scrapped, IVF doctor Lord Robert Winston said yesterday. The call comes after raids on the clinic of Mohamed Taranissi, a fertility doctor who has been accused of offering expensive, unproven treatment...

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