Australian members of Amnesty International have expressed their disappointment over the organisation's new pro-abortion stance. Many of AI's numerous Christian members are "lining up to resign" according to school principal Fr Chris Middleton. "As a Catholic priest and the Principal of a school wit...

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News, A survey commissioned by the UK health ministry has found that unqualified maternity support workers are being used as a substitute for trained midwives in some parts of the country. With Britain facing a shortage of up to 3,000 midwives, the intended purpose of maternity support workers is ...

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News, The British Medical Association is opposed to the proposal, included in the draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill, to merge two regulatory bodies: the Human Fertilization and Embryology authority which deals with IVF and embryo research, and the Human Tissue Authority which deals with patholog...

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The British Medical Association is opposed to the proposal, included in the draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill, to merge two regulatory bodies: the Human Fertilization and Embryology authority which deals with IVF and embryo research, and the Human Tissue Authority which deals with pathology, anato...

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Prof Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton University, has criticised a proposed cull of kangaroos in Australia, saying that it is not ethically justifiable because the kangaroos are not in distress. Animal rights campaigners have proposed a cull of more than 3,000 of the 6,500 kangaroos...

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News, Controversial language concerning reproductive health appears in the 2008-14 Medium Term Health Strategy published by the World Health Assembly. The US, supported by Paraguay, El Salvador, Malta, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, opposed the attempt to suggest the existence of a new human right to ab...

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News, The Irish teenager, known only as Miss D, who won a high court battle to travel to England for an abortion has returned to Ireland. Miss D's severely disabled baby was killed by late term chemical abortion and is expected to be buried in Ireland. A poll by the Irish Independent found that tw...

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A culture war that is being waged in international institutions such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations has come to the fore at the annual World Health Assembly which is currently underway in Switzerland. The assembly is the supreme decision-making body for the World Health Orga...

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Poland's deputy prime minister, speaking at the recent World Congress of Families in Warsaw, said that the Polish government would not agree to demands of the European Union to provide abortion, homosexual rights and other attacks on the family. Mr Roman Giertych told the 3,300 delegates from around...

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News, The Holy See has expressed its concerns to the World Health Organisation over the deaths of millions of infants as a result of disease. Archbishop Tomasi told a meeting of the World Health Assembly that he hoped resolutions "will never be utilized to 'justify' doing harm to or destroying hum...

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News, A survey of General Practitioners is being used by pro-euthanasia campaigners to call for physician assisted suicide to be legalised in Britain. A report in Pulse magazine states that 42% of the 309 doctors who took part in the survey said they would be prepared to help a terminally ill pati...

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weekly update, 18 to 22 May weekly update, 18 to 22 May A survey of General Practitioners is being used by pro-euthanasia campaigners to call for physician assisted suicide to be legalised in Britain. A report in Pulse magazine states that 42% of the 309 doctors who took part in the survey said ...

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A survey of General Practitioners is being used by pro-euthanasia campaigners to call for physician assisted suicide to be legalised in Britain. A report in Pulse magazine states that 42% of the 309 doctors who took part in the survey said they would be prepared to help a terminally ill patient to c...

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A new pro-life feature film, Bella, has been released by Metanoia Films. It is the story of a young expectant mother wrestling with an abortion decision. It won the People's Choice Award in Toronto in September 2006. Colin Mason, media director for Population Research Institute, praised the film and...

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weekly update, 9 to 17 May weekly update, 9 to 17 May Amongst the measures included in the draft Human Tissue and Embryo Bill, published recently by the Department of Health, is permission for scientists to create, under licence, human-animal hybrids for research into serious diseases. Pressure ...

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News, Amongst the measures included in the draft Human Tissue and Embryo Bill published today by the UK Department of Health is permission for scientists to create, under licence, human-animal hybrids for research into serious diseases. Pressure from scientists persuaded ministers not to ban the p...

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News, A Private Member's Bill is to be introduced into Parliament next month that would require women considering abortion to undergo counselling and would introduce a 'cooling off' period to prevent pregnant women being rushed into abortion. Ann Winterton of the All Party Parliamentary Pro-Life G...

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A Private Member's Bill is to be introduced into Parliament next month that would require women considering abortion to undergo counselling and would introduce a 'cooling off' period to prevent pregnant women being rushed into abortion. Ann Winterton of the All Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group sta...

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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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