News, Comments on life-related issues by Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, the retired archbishop of Milan, in an Italian newspaper, have attracted widespread attention in both the Catholic and secular media. [L'espresso, 21 April] Some reports interpret Cardinal Martini's comments as at variance with...

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News, An Australian hospital which carried out an abortion at 32 weeks because the unborn child had dwarfism is under investigation by the Medical Practitioners Board. The Royal Women's Hospital in Victoria has been ordered by the Victorian Court of Appeals to release the medical records of the wo...

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An Australian hospital which carried out an abortion at 32 weeks because the unborn child had dwarfism is under investigation by the Medical Practitioners Board. The Royal Women's Hospital in Victoria has been ordered by the Victorian Court of Appeals to release the medical records of the woman, kno...

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The vice-minister of the Chinese Family Planning Commission has described the country's one-child policy as "a great achievement". In a substantial report into the policy and gender imbalance by major US TV news programme '60 Minutes', broadcast in the run-up to the US visit of Chinese president Hu ...

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News, The vice-minister of the Chinese Family Planning Commission has described the country's one-child policy as "a great achievement". In a substantial report into the policy and gender imbalance by major US TV news programme '60 Minutes', broadcast in the run-up to the US visit of Chinese presi...

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News, Teen pregnancy rates in a British city have risen to record highs, according to new figures. Officials in Sheffield started a 10-year project in 1999 to halve its teenage pregnancy rates but numbers have continued to rise. South Yorkshire was singled out for criticism by the government after...

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A Singaporean man, who forced his daughters to undergo abortion after raping them, has been sentenced to 32 years in jail and 24 cane strokes. The Muslim businessman, who cannot be named so as to protect his victims, admitted to the repeated rape of five of his daughters. Two of them, aged between 1...

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China will experience more crime in the future, due to the country's one child policy, according to an American professor of political science. Valerie Hudson, professor at Brigham Young University in Utah said in a television interview that there would be a "surplus" of 30 million men by 2020 and t...

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weekly update, 13 to Weekly Update, 13 to The Board of Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has submitted a resolution to its 2007 international conference to include abortion in its policy on sexual and reproductive rights. The resolution states that AIUK supports research and action to achieve t...

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News, A psychologist has reiterated his view that children can never experience pain before birth. Dr Stuart Derbyshire, told the British Medical Journal that unborn babies' minds are not mature enough to sense trauma until after the baby has left the womb and starts to interact. His claim follows...

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Why women will be 'silent no more' Why women will be 'silent no more' London, - Women who regret their abortions are gathering in Parliament Square, London, on Saturday (22 April) at 11.00 am to launch their own campaign entitled Silent No More. These women have decided to speak publicly of the...

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News, The Board of Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has submitted a resolution to its 2007 international conference to include abortion in its policy on sexual and reproductive rights. The resolution states that AIUK supports research and action to achieve the, "decriminalisation of abortion," "acc...

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The Board of Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has submitted a resolution to its 2007 international conference to include abortion in its policy on sexual and reproductive rights. The resolution states that AIUK supports research and action to achieve the, "decriminalisation of abortion," "access to q...

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The American pro-life campaigner Gianna Jessen, who survived when her mother attempted to abort her, has spoken to a local newspaper in the north of England about her life and her work. She spoke in the Civic Hall in Leeds yesterday at an event organised by local Catholics and pro-life groups. Despi...

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weekly update, 6 to WeeklyUpdate, 6 to The UK government has extended free provision of the morning-after pill to girls as young as 12 without their parents' knowledge. The programme to allow pharmacists to provide the pill without prescription had been tried experimentally, but is now to be ...

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News, The American pro-life campaigner Gianna Jessen, who survived when her mother attempted to abort her, has spoken to a local newspaper in the north of England about her life and her work. She spoke in the Civic Hall in Leeds yesterday at an event organised by local Catholics and pro-life group...

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News, Most British care homes are not giving adequate care to the dying, according to a government study. 99% of care homes have not revised their procedures for looking after the dying, despite guidelines issued a year ago as part of a £12m three-year NHS end of life care programme. These guideli...

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In the last three years, 100,000 women in Ireland are said to have used a state-funded mobile phone text service that provides information about crisis pregnancies. The text service is part of a campaign by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA) called Positive Options, which is supposed to provide women...

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A couple in England whose premature twin girls died two weeks after birth have spoken of the time they spent with their daughters and of their horror at recent proposals by doctors to let premature babies die. Sally King gave birth to baby girls Samantha and Victoria at 23 weeks eight years ago but,...

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News, Pro-life campaigners in America are planning to submit a petition to investigate the death of a woman who died after having an abortion at a clinic in Kansas. Christin Gilbert, 19, who had Down's syndrome, underwent an abortion on 11 January 2005 when she was 28 weeks' pregnant. She died two...

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