News, A fertility study released by the Office for National Statistics has reported that only half of women who postpone starting a family until their thirties go on to have children. Dr Angela McCallum, a volunteer with Fertility Care Scotland, said: "The figures do not surprise me as fertili...

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News, New Zealand's Associate Justice Minister has attacked Judith Collins MP for calling for a change in the law that allows underage girls to have abortions without parental knowledge. David Benson-Pope said: "I understand there is a large faction within the National [party] who appreciate t...

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News, New Zealand's Associate Justice Minister has attacked Judith Collins MP for calling for a change in the law that allows underage girls to have abortions without parental knowledge. David Benson-Pope said: "I understand there is a large faction within the National [party] who appreciate the c...

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News, A Hong Kong company is to offer Chinese couples the chance to choose the gender of their children before conception. The company, which has opened an office in Hong Kong and plans to open an office in Shanghai, uses a sperm sorting technique based on electric charges and claims to offer an a...

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News, A Hong Kong company is to offer Chinese couples the chance to choose the gender of their children before conception. The company, which has opened an office in Hong Kong and plans to open an office in Shanghai, uses a sperm sorting technique based on electric charges and claims to offer ...

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Professor Ian Wilmut, one of the scientists who cloned Dolly the Sheep, has applied for a licence to clone human embryos. Professor Wilmut of the Roslin Instititue in Edinburgh has emphasised the fact that his team wants to use embryos for research purposes only and will destroy them after experimen...

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Scientists have created 'biological' pacemakers using human embryonic stem cells, the Independent reports. Researchers from Israel and the US grew the embryonic stem cells and coaxed them into becoming heart muscle cells, which were then injected into the hearts of pigs. However, before any serious ...

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Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver has described Catholic politicians who try to separate their personal convictions from their political duties as doing 'a deal with the devil'. Quoting Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor and theologian, Archbishop Chaput argued that abortion is not a 'Cathol...

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West Mercia police have sent a file to the Crown Prosecution Service following their investigation of a late abortion involving a baby with cleft lip and palate. Joanna Jepson won her judicial review of the case earlier in the year after police refused to prosecute the doctors involved. The CPS will...

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News, A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has found that nearly one third of pregnant women are prescribed drugs not known to be safe during pregnancy and five percent are prescribed drugs that are known to put the unborn child at risk. Dr Susan Andrade of t...

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News, A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has found that nearly one third of pregnant women are prescribed drugs not known to be safe during pregnancy and five percent are prescribed drugs that are known to put the unborn child at risk. Dr Susan Andrade of the U...

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News, news, news, A Guernsey politician has called for a referendum on euthanasia after Guernsey's Policy Committee decided not to change the law, which bans euthanasia in the island. Lyndon Trott admitted however that the vote might not be legally binding. [BBC, 21 September ] A couple in Chi...

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SPUC holds national conference WESTMINSTER, 20 September - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children held its national conference at the Hayes Centre in Swanwick, Derbyshire, last weekend. Over 200 delegates attended a series of talks and workshops on key issues including the Mental Capacity...

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News, The National Chaplain to the Guild of Catholic Doctors has warned that the Mental Capacity Bill will 'overturn a traditional principle of medical ethics.' Fr Hugh MacKenzie wrote in a letter to the Daily Telegraph: "Legalising third-party decisions that allow death without medical inevit...

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News, The National Chaplain to the Guild of Catholic Doctors has warned that the Mental Capacity Bill will 'overturn a traditional principle of medical ethics.' Fr Hugh MacKenzie wrote in a letter to the Daily Telegraph: "Legalising third-party decisions that allow death without medical inevitabil...

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News, 13 IVF children have been born using frozen eggs, The Independent reports. Italian researchers froze 737 eggs, 37% of which survived freezing and thawing. Dr Giovanni Coticchio who led the study said that the current egg survival rate was inadequate but that the technique could revolutionise...

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News, 13 IVF children have been born using frozen eggs, The Independent reports. Italian researchers froze 737 eggs, 37% of which survived freezing and thawing. Dr Giovanni Coticchio who led the study said that the current egg survival rate was inadequate but that the technique could revolutio...

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News, The director of the disability rights organisation Changing Perspectives has warned that the Mental Capacity Bill 'creates an imbalance of power between decision-maker and person without capacity' and 'threatens the gains made by civil rights legislation and our right to make decisions f...

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News, The director of the disability rights organisation Changing Perspectives has warned that the Mental Capacity Bill 'creates an imbalance of power between decision-maker and person without capacity' and 'threatens the gains made by civil rights legislation and our right to make decisions for o...

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SPUC welcomes Royal College of Nursing rejection of assisted suicide bill Westminster, - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has welcomed the Royal College of Nursing's rejection of the legalisation of assisted suicide and active voluntary euthanasia. The College said that a co...

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