News, The UK government has extended free provision of the morning-after pill to girls as young as 12 without their parent's knowledge. The programme to allow pharmacists to provide the pill without prescription had been tried experimentally, but is now to be extend to any area where local health ...

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The UK government has extended free provision of the morning-after pill to girls as young as 12 without their parent's knowledge. The programme to allow pharmacists to provide the pill without prescription had been tried experimentally, but is now to be extend to any area where local health official...

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The lawyer who represented Terri Schiavo's parents for three years has spoken about the impact that the case had on her beliefs and personal life. Patricia Anderson gave her first interview since the death by dehydration of Terri Schiavo a year ago, to the website, Florida Baptist Witness. She said ...

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News, Part of the coalition Belgian government has called for euthanasia rights to be given to under-eighteens. The Flemish Socialist party said yesterday that under-eighteens should be given the right to have assisted suicide. Euthanasia is currently legal in Belgium for adults who request it mor...

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News, Premature babies experience genuine pain, according to a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers at University College London analysed brain scans of babies aged between 25 and 45 weeks from conception that were taken during blood tests. Professor Maria Fitzgerald, who le...

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Premature babies experience genuine pain, according to a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers at University College London analysed brain scans of babies aged between 25 and 45 weeks from conception that were taken during blood tests. Professor Maria Fitzgerald, who led the re...

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weekly update, 30 March to The Pope has told parliamentarians from the European Popular Party that the first principle of all politicians should be "protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception to natural death." Speaking on 30 March in Rome, Benedict XVI named thre...

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A Chinese man, who has been campaigning against abuses in the one-child policy, has now been missing for over 20 days. Chen Guangcheng, who is blind, had been collecting evidence of forced abortions and sterilisations in Shandong Province and had been planning a lawsuit against the Chinese governmen...

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News, A Chinese man, who has been campaigning against abuses in the one-child policy, has now been missing for over 20 days. Chen Guangcheng, who is blind, had been collecting evidence of forced abortions and sterilisations in Shandong Province and had been planning a lawsuit against the Chinese g...

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News, The Pope has told parliamentarians from the European Popular Party that the first principle of all politicians should be "protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception to natural death." Speaking on 30 March in Rome, Benedict XVI named three principles that all po...

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An Italian government minister has said that Holland's plans to legalise their practice of infant euthanasia on the grounds of disability are a re-emergence of Nazi policy. Carlo Giovanardi, Italy's Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, said in a radio debate, "Nazi legislation and Hitler's ideas are ...

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An Indian doctor and his assistant have been jailed for offering to abort an unborn girl on the basis that she was female. Dr Anil Sabhani and his technician Katar Singh were captured on video telling a woman that her baby was a girl and saying that this could be "taken care of". The men were caught...

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News, An Indian doctor and his assistant have been jailed for offering to abort an unborn girl on the basis that she was female. Dr Anil Sabhani and his technician Katar Singh were captured on video telling a woman that her baby was a girl and saying that this could be "taken care of". The men wer...

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News, Researchers are developing a new birth control pill based on the drug mifepristone (RU486). Scientists at the University of Edinburgh suggest that the pill might not carry the risks of breast cancer that are associated with current daily pills. Professor David Baird has said that it may even...

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A mother who put off treatment for leukaemia until the birth of her daughter to avoid harming her unborn child has been given the all-clear. Sarah Peck, 31, who has two other children, was offered the option of an abortion when her illness was diagnosed, but she decided to continue the pregnancy and...

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weekly update, 23 to weekly update, 23 to The price of abortifacient morning-after pills is expected to fall by 12% after Mr Gordon Brown, the British finance minister, announced a cut in sales tax on birth control supplies. The reduction in value added tax from 17.5% to 5% will mean that morn...

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British fertility clinics are among the least successful in Europe, according to a study by the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology. Only 28.6% of patients who undergo IVF in Britain become pregnant and British clinics also have the highest rate of complications in pregnancy cause...

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News, An Egyptian baby girl, who had a rare birth defect that resulted in her having a second head, has died from a brain infection. Manar Maged, aged ten months, was born with the highly unusual condition, craniopagus parasiticus. Her second head was believed by doctors to be incapable of indepen...

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News, Every school in England is to have a birth control nurse, according to new government guidelines. The Department for Education and the Department of Health have unveiled plans to place nurses in all primary and secondary schools who will be able to "provide contraceptive advice to pupils and...

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Michael Schiavo, who allowed his terminally ill wife Terri to be starved to death, has admitted that his book about her was written to "settle some scores" with her family. "Terri: The Truth" was written by military historian Michael Hirsh on behalf of Michael Schiavo. In an interview with NBC News,...

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