News, The US Senate has approved the Unborn Victims of Violence Act in a 61-38 vote. The bill, which grants unborn babies legal protection, will now be sent to President Bush for signing. Bill Frist, Senate majority leader, called the bill "powerful because this act is about simple humanity, about...

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News, The US Senate has approved the Unborn Victims of Violence Act in a 61-38 vote. The bill, which grants unborn babies legal protection, will now be sent to President Bush for signing. Bill Frist, Senate majority leader, called the bill "powerful because this act is about simple humanity, a...

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News, Pope John Paul II has stated that the removal of feeding tubes from people in a 'vegetative state' is immoral. Speaking at a Vatican conference on the ethical issues surrounding the care of incapacitated patients, he said that it is degrading to call people 'vegetative' and that providin...

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News, Pope John Paul II has stated that the removal of feeding tubes from people in a 'vegetative state' is immoral. Speaking at a Vatican conference on the ethical issues surrounding the care of incapacitated patients, he said that it is degrading to call people 'vegetative' and that providing fo...

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Northern Ireland health minister urged to withdraw sex health plan Belfast, --Leading pro-life campaigners in Northern Ireland are calling on the Minister of Health to withdraw her department's Five Year Sexual Health Strategy. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) is warning that...

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News, Nearly a quarter of 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK were on the birth control pill in 2002, BBC reports. The number has rose from 20% in 1986 to 24%. The Family Planning Association welcomed the news, saying that it was probably the result of sex education, but FPA spokeswoman Melissa Dear ack...

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News, Nearly a quarter of 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK were on the birth control pill in 2002, BBC reports. The number has rose from 20% in 1986 to 24%. The Family Planning Association welcomed the news, saying that it was probably the result of sex education, but FPA spokeswoman Melissa Dear...

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News, The Australian health minister's description of abortion as a 'national tragedy' has sparked both praise and condemnation, The Age reports. Tony Abbott said that even those who supported abortion should find it troubling that women chose to destroy their unborn babies. Pro-life and relig...

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News, The Australian health minister's description of abortion as a 'national tragedy' has sparked both praise and condemnation, The Age reports. Tony Abbott said that even those who supported abortion should find it troubling that women chose to destroy their unborn babies. Pro-life and religious...

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News, Dana Rosemary Scallon MEP has received a prestigious pro-life award in Rome, in recognition of her work for human life and family in Europe. [Breaking News, 16 March] The Pontifical Academy for Life has issued a condemnation of destructive fertility treatments and embryo research following i...

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News, Dana Rosemary Scallon MEP has received a prestigious pro-life award in Rome, in recognition of her work for human life and family in Europe. [Breaking News, 16 March ] The Pontifical Academy for Life has issued a condemnation of destructive fertility treatments and embryo research follow...

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News, A US appeals court has ruled that the husband of a Chinese woman forced to have an abortion cannot be denied asylum because the Chinese authorities did not recognise their marriage. Kui Rong Ma fled China on his wife's urging with the intention of sending for her later. However, he was i...

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News, A US appeals court has ruled that the husband of a Chinese woman forced to have an abortion cannot be denied asylum because the Chinese authorities did not recognise their marriage. Kui Rong Ma fled China on his wife's urging with the intention of sending for her later. However, he was initi...

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News, Cardinal Keith O'Brien and Archbishop Mario Conti are urging Scottish Catholics to resist a government sex education plan that would allow school nurses to give children advice about contraception and abortion without parental consent. [Scotland on Sunday, 14 March] A report published by the...

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News, Cardinal Keith O'Brien and Archbishop Mario Conti are urging Scottish Catholics to resist a government sex education plan that would allow school nurses to give children advice about contraception and abortion without parental consent. [Scotland on Sunday, 14 March ] A report published b...

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News, A woman from Utah who refused a caesarean section that could have saved her baby's life has been charged with murder. Melissa Ann Rowland was warned repeatedly that the lives of her twins were in danger if she did not have a caesarean section but she allegedly said that she would rather ...

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News, A woman from Utah who refused a caesarean section that could have saved her baby's life has been charged with murder. Melissa Ann Rowland was warned repeatedly that the lives of her twins were in danger if she did not have a caesarean section but she allegedly said that she would rather lose...

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News, A parliamentary committee is to be set up to consider the issue of euthanasia. Last night the House of Lords, Britain's upper house of parliament, held a short debate on Lord Joffe's Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, which would legalise assisted suicide and active voluntary euthan...

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News, A parliamentary committee is to be set up to consider the issue of euthanasia. Last night the House of Lords, Britain's upper house of parliament, held a short debate on Lord Joffe's Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, which would legalise assisted suicide and active voluntary eu...

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News, The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that doctors breached a disabled child's human rights when they administered diamorphine against the wishes of the mother. The family of David Glass refused to accept the view of doctors that their son was dying and that intensive care was 'in...

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