The Irish high court has allowed a 17-year-old girl to travel to Britain for an abortion on her four-month-old unborn child who is said to have anencephaly. The girl is in state care and her mother went to court to support the application. [BBC, 9 May] Alison Davis, leader of SPUC's No Less Human gr...

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News, The Irish high court has allowed a 17-year-old girl to travel to Britain for an abortion on her four-month-old unborn child who is said to have anencephaly. The girl is in state care and her mother went to court to support the application. [BBC, 9 May] Alison Davis, leader of SPUC's No Less ...

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Irish abortion ruling a double tragedy Wednesday, - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has described today's Dublin high court ruling, which allows a woman to come to Britain for an abortion, as a tragedy for both mother and child. Alison Davis, leader of SPUC's No Less Human ...

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News, British Health Minister Caroline Flint has said in a leaked memo to Prime Minister Tony Blair that pro-life members of parliament are "plotting" to "hijack" a Government Bill to reduce the time limit for some abortions. She said "There is a possibility that some members (of parliament) may w...

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weekly update, 2 to 8 May weekly update, 2 to 8 May British Health Minister Caroline Flint has said in a leaked memo to Prime Minister Tony Blair that pro-life members of parliament are "plotting" to "hijack" a Government Bill to reduce the time limit for some abortions. She said "There is a pos...

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British Health Minister Caroline Flint has said in a leaked memo to Prime Minister Tony Blair that pro-life members of parliament are "plotting" to "hijack" a Government Bill to reduce the time limit for some abortions. She said "There is a possibility that some members (of parliament) may wish to u...

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In a poll of 309 family doctors in Britain, 24% said they did not sign abortion referral forms and 19% thought that abortion should not be legal. Ann Furedi of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service discounted the poll as being too small to be representative. [Sky, 3 May and Telegraph, 3 May] One su...

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News, In a poll of 309 family doctors in Britain, 24% said they did not sign abortion referral forms and 19% thought that abortion should not be legal. Ann Furedi of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service discounted the poll as being too small to be representative. [Sky, 3 May and Telegraph, 3 May]...

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News, A statement from the Archdiocese of Mexico City has called on doctors and other healthcare workers to exercise their right to conscientious objection to abortion. It warns that those who provide abortions under the city's new permissive abortion law could face excommunication, and so could p...

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weekly update, 26 April to 1 May weekly update, 26 April to 1 May The body which regulates human embryology research in the UK has launched a public consultation on whether scientists should be allowed to create human-animal hybrids for research. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority ...

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A statement from the Archdiocese of Mexico City has called on doctors and other healthcare workers to exercise their right to conscientious objection to abortion. It warns that those who provide abortions under the city's new permissive abortion law could face excommunication, and so could politicia...

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A British school has admitted giving out more than 300 morning-after pills over the past four years without informing parents. A woman doctor or nurse is available to give prescriptions four days a week at Lutterworth Grammar School, Leicestershire, which has 1,900 pupils, more than a third of them ...

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News, A British school has admitted giving out more than 300 morning-after pills over the past four years without informing parents. A woman doctor or nurse is available to give prescriptions four days a week at Lutterworth Grammar School, Leicestershire, which has 1,900 pupils, more than a third ...

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News, The College of Catholic Lawyers in Mexico is to complain to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights about the legalisation in Mexico City of social abortion in the first three months of pregnancy. Fr Hugo Valdemar, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Mexico City, said the new law went against ...

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Women for Life International, a pro-life feminist group in the USA, has joined the protest by many groups and individuals against the proposal by Amnesty International to adopt a stance in favour of abortion. Molly White, co-founder of the group, said: "The proposed policy is not only in direct conf...

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The Dutch government has lifted restrictions on the Women on Waves abortion ship project and given it a new licence. The ship will be able to sail under a Dutch flag in international waters, pick up women from countries where abortion is illegal, and give them abortion-inducing pills. It is planned ...

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News, The body which regulates human embryology research in the UK has launched a public consultation on whether scientists should be allowed to create human-animal hybrids for research. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has produced a consultation paper explaining future pos...

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News, One in 30 babies aborted for medical reasons is born alive, some surviving for over six hours, a study of West Midlands, England, hospitals has found. Most of the babies were born between 20 and 24 weeks of pregnancy and lived for an average of 80 minutes. Researchers assessed the outcome of...

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One in 30 babies aborted for medical reasons is born alive, some surviving for over six hours, a study of West Midlands, England, hospitals has found. Most of the babies were born between 20 and 24 weeks of pregnancy and lived for an average of 80 minutes. Researchers assessed the outcome of nearly ...

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update, 12 to 25 April update, 12 to 25 April President Bush has pledged to ensure the right to life of all unborn children following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the country's partial-birth abortion ban. "The ... decision is an affirmation of the progress we have made over the past si...

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