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 'inappr...

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News, A sexual advice clinic for young people in Dundee is being criticised for arranging abortions for girls as young as 13 without parental knowledge. Caledonia Youth, the organisation that runs the centre, has said that children are encouraged to talk to their parents but that they 'aim to prov...

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News, A sexual advice clinic for young people in Dundee is being criticised for arranging abortions for girls as young as 13 without parental knowledge. Caledonia Youth, the organisation that runs the centre, has said that children are encouraged to talk to their parents but that they 'aim to ...

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News, The British government is to increase its funding of the abortion provider International Planned Parenthood Federation. Gareth Thomas, parliamentary under secretary of state for international development, said that the money was for "the difficulties that our friends in America have caus...

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News, The British government is to increase its funding of the abortion provider International Planned Parenthood Federation. Gareth Thomas, parliamentary under secretary of state for international development, said that the money was for "the difficulties that our friends in America have caused f...

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SPUC campaigns against euthanasia bill London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has warned that mistakes made before the legalisation of abortion could be repeated over euthanasia. It is launching one of its biggest ever campaigns against the draft Mental Incapacity Bill, i...

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News, The Portuguese parliament has rejected calls to liberalise its abortion laws, following a high profile court case in which 17 people were charged over illegal abortions. Pro-abortion activists have been calling for a referendum after losing one in 1998, but Jose Manuel Durao Barroso the Prim...

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News, The Portuguese parliament has rejected calls to liberalise its abortion laws, following a high profile court case in which 17 people were charged over illegal abortions. Pro-abortion activists have been calling for a referendum after losing one in 1998, but Jose Manuel Durao Barroso the ...

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News, The supreme court of California has ruled that a Catholic charity must provide contraceptives under its health insurance plan for employees. The American Civil Liberties Union described the 6-1 ruling as "a great victory for Californian women and reproductive freedom". However, the one j...

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News, The supreme court of California has ruled that a Catholic charity must provide contraceptives under its health insurance plan for employees. The American Civil Liberties Union described the 6-1 ruling as "a great victory for Californian women and reproductive freedom". However, the one judge...

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News, SPUC has released a 30-page analysis of the BBC's Sex and the Holy City Panorama programme, exposing its slanted reporting and anti-life bias. The document can be linked to here US health officials investigating the death of Holly Patterson after she took the RU-486 abortion pill have found ...

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News, SPUC has released a 30-page analysis of the BBC's Sex and the Holy City Panorama programme, exposing its slanted reporting and anti-life bias. The document can be linked to here US health officials investigating the death of Holly Patterson after she took the RU-486 abortion pill have fo...

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London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has accused the BBC of misleading reporting, hidden agendas, vested interests and an anti-life bias. The accusations are in Bias and the BBC, SPUC's 30-page critique of "Sex and the Holy City", a Panorama programme which was broadcas...

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News, Britain's principal health minister has welcomed plans for universal free IVF (reported yesterday). Dr John Reid agreed with the National Institute for Clinical Excellence's recommendations and said that the priority was national provision of IVF. He said that, by April of next year, at ...

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News, Britain's principal health minister has welcomed plans for universal free IVF (reported yesterday). Dr John Reid agreed with the National Institute for Clinical Excellence's recommendations and said that the priority was national provision of IVF. He said that, by April of next year, at leas...

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News, The UK government has said that it will amend the draft mental incapacity bill, calling it the mental capacity bill. Lord Filkin, the constitutional affairs minister, said: "This bill is not about euthanasia. It is about increasing vulnerable people's rights and their protection." [The Guard]...

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News, The UK government has said that it will amend the draft mental incapacity bill, calling it the mental capacity bill. Lord Filkin, the constitutional affairs minister, said: "This bill is not about euthanasia. It is about increasing vulnerable people's rights and their protection." [The G]...

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News, The House of Commons' science and technology committee is considering the possibility of a change in the UK's cloning laws. One possibility some MPs wish to debate is whether infertile couples should ever be permitted to clone a child. Cloning for so-called 'therapeutic' purposes is perm...

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News, The House of Commons' science and technology committee is considering the possibility of a change in the UK's cloning laws. One possibility some MPs wish to debate is whether infertile couples should ever be permitted to clone a child. Cloning for so-called 'therapeutic' purposes is permitte...

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News, A UK pharmacy chain has apologised to a 23-year-old woman who was refused the morning-after pill by two staff members on conscientious grounds. The woman is reported as saying that she was embarrassed in front of other customers in a branch of Boot's the Chemist in Sheffield, south Yorkshire...

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