Department of Health statistics for abortions in 2005 indicate a total 186,416 babies were aborted in England and Wales. More than 1,000 teenagers had repeat abortions. 1,316 girls under 18 had an abortion for a second time, and 90 went through a third. The figures also showed that by the end of las...

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weekly update, 13 to 20 December Weekly Update, 13 to 20 December An attempt to enshrine abortion as a human right was rejected by many nations at the adoption of the Disability Convention by the United Nations General Assembly. Peter C Smith, chief administrative officer at the United Nations ...

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Couples undergoing IVF treatment are wasting thousands of pounds on unnecessary and potentially harmful drugs, according to researchers in the Netherlands. Scientists from the University of Utrecht believe that small doses of the drugs can be just as effective as the expensive high doses that are co...

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News, The lover of the pregnant women found murdered near Ipswich, England earlier this month, has expressed his grief and anger at losing "the two most precious things in my life". Mr Sam Jefford had met Miss Anneli Alderton at a drugs rehabilitation unit, but said he did not know that she worked...

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News, The Vatican has refused to sign a charter of rights for the disabled on the grounds that it could be used to promote abortion. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities includes references to "sexual and reproductive health" - which could be used to support abortion. Archb...

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Babies in the Ukraine are reportedly being stolen from their parents at birth and killed so that their organs and stem cells can be harvested for international trade. The Ukraine is the main supplier of the global stem cell trade, and officially provides embryonic stem cells of aborted babies with t...

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Experiments with mice have shown that embryos created by parthenogenesis, a process by which an unfertilised egg starts dividing, can be a source of stem cells. The leader of the study, Dr George Daley of Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, US, said "We are aggressively trying ...

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News, SPUC has relaunched its international review. The third edition of Pro-Life Intelligence is published today and includes a leading article on the latest attempts to use "sexual and reproductive health" to cloak moves to make abortion more widely available. There are also abstracts of several...

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News, An attempt to enshrine abortion as a human right was rejected by many nations at the adoption of the Disability Convention by the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. Peter C Smith, chief administrative officer at the United Nations for SPUC and the International Right To Life Federati...

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An attempt to enshrine abortion as a human right was rejected by many nations at the adoption of the Disability Convention by the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. Peter C Smith, chief administrative officer at the United Nations for SPUC and the International Right To Life Federation (IRTL...

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Abortion agenda rejected in UN Disability Convention London, 14th December 2006 - An attempt to enshrine abortion as a human right was rejected by many nations at the adoption of the Disability Convention by the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. Peter C Smith, chief administrative officer a...

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Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, a leading demographer, has spoken at a UN conference warning that sex selection abortion is leading to a worldwide imbalance in gender. He calls it a "global war against baby girls." Natural birth rates are about 105 males for...

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News, The lack of any British studies into the long-term effects of IVF is criticised in an opinion piece by Jerome Burne. Noting that 1.4% of UK births are now due to IVF, he cites practitioners who want research into such conditions as autism, cerebral palsy and cancer among children, and miscar...

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weekly update, 7 to 12 December Weekly Update, 7 to 12 December A parliamentary group has concluded that the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are "difficult or impossible to meet" without curbing population growth. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reprodu...

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A British parliamentary group has concluded that the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are "difficult or impossible to meet" without curbing population growth. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health will publish a report later this month claiming ...

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News, A British parliamentary group has concluded that the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are "difficult or impossible to meet" without curbing population growth. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health will publish a report later this month c...

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News, A panel of American scientists has called for more scrutiny of human embryonic stem cell studies published by scientific journals. The panel was commissioned by the journal Science, which previously published two fabricated papers by the North Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk, who falsely cla...

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A panel of American scientists has called for more scrutiny of human embryonic stem cell studies published by scientific journals. The panel was commissioned by the journal Science, which previously published two fabricated papers by the North Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk, who falsely claimed to ...

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weekly update, 29 November to 6 December Weekly Update, 29 November to 6 December A panel of American scientists has called for more scrutiny of human embryonic stem cell studies published by scientific journals. The panel was commissioned by Science, which previously published two fabricated p...

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High court ruling authorises euthanasia by omission, says SPUC High court ruling authorises euthanasia by omission, says SPUC London, 6th December 2006 - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), which has campaigned against euthanasia for many years, has condemned today's High C...

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