News, A criminal investigation into the damage caused to unborn babies by alcohol has begun in Northern France, The Independent reports. The preliminary inquiry has accused persons unknown of 'placing the lives of others in danger, accidental wounding and fraudulent marketing.' The potential d...

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News, A criminal investigation into the damage caused to unborn babies by alcohol has begun in Northern France, The Independent reports. The preliminary inquiry has accused persons unknown of 'placing the lives of others in danger, accidental wounding and fraudulent marketing.' The potential defen...

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News, Three US Catholic bishops have announced that they will withhold Communion to church members who consistently support abortion. A statement issued by Archbishop John Donoghue of Atlanta, Bishop Robert Baker of Charleston and Bishop Peter Jugis of Charlotte, said that Catholics who violat...

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News, Dutch researchers have claimed that four to 10 percent of patient deaths are the result of 'terminal sedation', a form of euthanasia that involves the patient being sedated so that they fall into a coma and then deprived of food and fluids. The team from the Erasmus Medical Centre and th...

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News, A man suffering from a degenerative brain condition has won a legal challenge against the General Medical Council in the High Court. Leslie Burke argued that the GMC's guidance allowing doctors to withdraw food and fluids from patients in some cases contravened the European Convention on...

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News, A man suffering from a degenerative brain condition has won a legal challenge against the General Medical Council in the High Court. Leslie Burke argued that the GMC's guidance allowing doctors to withdraw food and fluids from patients in some cases contravened the European Convention o...

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News, A British-born palliative care specialist in New Zealand has spoken out against euthanasia. Speaking on a variety of issues surrounding end-of-life care, Professor Rod MacLeod of the University of Otago expressed fears that legal euthanasia would put a burden on both families and patients. H...

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News, A British-born palliative care specialist in New Zealand has spoken out against euthanasia. Speaking on a variety of issues surrounding end-of-life care, Professor Rod MacLeod of the University of Otago expressed fears that legal euthanasia would put a burden on both families and patient...

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News, One of Ronald Reagan's sons has delivered a speech in support of embryonic stem cell research at the Democrat Convention, The Guardian reports. Ron Reagan spoke of embryonic stem cells as the key to "what may be the greatest medical breakthroughs in our or in any lifetime". He accused so...

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News, One of Ronald Reagan's sons has delivered a speech in support of embryonic stem cell research at the Democrat Convention, The Guardian reports. Ron Reagan spoke of embryonic stem cells as the key to "what may be the greatest medical breakthroughs in our or in any lifetime". He accused some o...

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News, A UK woman has vowed to fight a hospital's High Court bid to withdraw her baby son's life-saving treatment. Luke Winston-Jones is six months old and has Edwards Syndrome, a condition that kills the majority of sufferers within a year of birth. The Bangor, North Wales hospital where he has be...

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News, A UK woman has vowed to fight a hospital's High Court bid to withdraw her baby son's life-saving treatment. Luke Winston-Jones is six months old and has Edwards Syndrome, a condition that kills the majority of sufferers within a year of birth. The Bangor, North Wales hospital where he ha...

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News, A number of letters have been printed in the Daily Telegraph in response to an article about the Mental Capacity Bill. Lord Filkin repeated his claim that the Bill does not permit 'euthanasia by stealth', whilst Dr Jacqueline Lang of the Department of Law, London Metropolitan University,...

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News, A number of letters have been printed in the Daily Telegraph in response to an article about the Mental Capacity Bill. Lord Filkin repeated his claim that the Bill does not permit 'euthanasia by stealth', whilst Dr Jacqueline Lang of the Department of Law, London Metropolitan University, dis...

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News, A 14-year-old girl was given her stillborn child and told to take him or her home. Staff at Bishop Auckland general hospital, County Durham, England, gave the 11-week baby to the young mother in a bottle which she stored in her family's refrigerator. A midwife and an undertaker subsequently ...

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News, A 14-year-old girl was given her stillborn child and told to take him or her home. Staff at Bishop Auckland general hospital, County Durham, England, gave the 11-week baby to the young mother in a bottle which she stored in her family's refrigerator. A midwife and an undertaker subsequen...

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News, The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is to allow for the creation of embryonic children to provide therapeutic tissue for an older sibling. The test-case is that of Joshua Fletcher, aged 2, of County Down, Northern Ireland, who has diamond blackfan anaemia. [BBC, 21 July ] Pa...

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News, The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is to allow for the creation of embryonic children to provide therapeutic tissue for an older sibling. The test-case is that of Joshua Fletcher, aged 2, of County Down, Northern Ireland, who has diamond blackfan anaemia. [BBC, 21 July] Paul Tu...

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Abortion not a human right insist pro-life campaigners Belfast, --Pro-life campaigners have attacked claims by the family planning industry that access to the 'morning after' pill, which can cause an early abortion, is a human right. Liam Gibson, Northern Ireland development officer of the Society f...

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Abortion targeted at ethnic minorities, says SPUC Abortion targeted at ethnic minorities, says SPUC Westminster, - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has claimed that abortion is being targeted at ethnic minorities - especially black and Asian women. Paul Tully, SPUC's gen...

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