News, A US couple who wanted to be one of the first to have a cloned baby, have almost given up after receiving a letter from Dr Panos Zavos requesting $80,000 to fund their cloning treatment. Kathy and Bill, whose surname was not divulged on their request, claim that they were led to believe ...

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News, SPUC has sent an open letter to BBC Director General Greg Dyke, challenging the BBC to back up claims made about the Catholic Church's pro-life teaching in its recent Panorama programme Sex and the Holy City. In a letter which detailed specific concerns, SPUC national director John Smeat...

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SPUC challenges claims of BBC Panorama Programme in open letter to Greg Dyke LONDON 27 October: SPUC has sent an open letter to BBC Director General Greg Dyke, challenging the BBC to back up claims made about the Catholic Church's pro-life teaching in its recent Panorama programme Sex and the Holy C...

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‘ ’ ‘Muslim medics discriminated against over pro-life views’ London, -- Muslim doctors and medical students are being discriminated against because of their pro-life views, according to a leading Muslim physician. Dr Jafer Qureshi was addressing a conference in London on Saturday (25 October) ...

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News, SPUC has sent an open letter to BBC Director General Greg Dyke, challenging the BBC to back up claims made about the Catholic Church's pro-life teaching in its recent Panorama programme Sex and the Holy City. In a letter which detailed specific concerns, SPUC national director John Smeaton s...

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News, Abortion is seen as a back-up to contraception, according to the director of SPUC in Scotland. Ian Murray was commenting in the light of the publication of figures which showed that the Lothian region had the highest number of abortions in Scotland. He said: "We have a sexual culture that is...

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News, Abortion is seen as a back-up to contraception, according to the director of SPUC in Scotland. Ian Murray was commenting in the light of the publication of figures which showed that the Lothian region had the highest number of abortions in Scotland. He said: "We have a sexual culture tha...

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News, Staff at the Florida hospice and hospital caring for Mrs Terri Schiavo, 39, were reportedly reluctant to obey Governor Jeb Bush's order to resume feeding her. Woodside hospice claimed there were no medical personnel to re-insert the feeding tube though two doctors who came to perform the...

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News, Staff at the Florida hospice and hospital caring for Mrs Terri Schiavo, 39, were reportedly reluctant to obey Governor Jeb Bush's order to resume feeding her. Woodside hospice claimed there were no medical personnel to re-insert the feeding tube though two doctors who came to perform the pro...

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News, The body which advises Britain's state health service has recommended that all unborn children should be screened for Down's syndrome. SPUC's disability rights group has warned of fatal discrimination against the disabled. Alison Davis of No Less Human told the Daily Mail: "The covert messag...

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News, The body which advises Britain's state health service has recommended that all unborn children should be screened for Down's syndrome. SPUC's disability rights group has warned of fatal discrimination against the disabled. Alison Davis of No Less Human told the Daily Mail: "The covert me...

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News, The trial has begun in China of more than 50 people charged with selling baby girls, The Guardian reports. 118 babies are thought to have been sold to couples nationally by doctors and midwives since 2001, through a network of smugglers and intermediaries. As a result of the preference f...

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News, The trial has begun in China of more than 50 people charged with selling baby girls, The Guardian reports. 118 babies are thought to have been sold to couples nationally by doctors and midwives since 2001, through a network of smugglers and intermediaries. As a result of the preference for b...

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News, A report from Greenpeace claims that children are being exposed to potentially harmful chemicals from the moment of conception. The report points to a correlation between the rise in some disease rates and the manufacture and use of certain chemicals but admitted that the corresponding figur...

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News, A report from Greenpeace claims that children are being exposed to potentially harmful chemicals from the moment of conception. The report points to a correlation between the rise in some disease rates and the manufacture and use of certain chemicals but admitted that the corresponding f...

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News, The Pope has emphasised bishops' duty to defend human life. In Pastores gregis, an apostolic exhortation published yesterday, John Paul II remarked on how the 2001 world episcopal synod had expressed anxiety at the widespread contempt for life and family. Christians needed to humanise me...

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News, The Pope has emphasised bishops' duty to defend human life. In Pastores gregis, an apostolic exhortation published yesterday, John Paul II remarked on how the 2001 world episcopal synod had expressed anxiety at the widespread contempt for life and family. Christians needed to humanise medici...

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News, Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed yesterday afternoon at the hospice where she has been living, Yahoo News reports. "It's a slow painful death," said her father Robert Schindler, who with his wife has fought to prevent Terri's death for five years. Around 100 supporters are holding vi...

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News, Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed yesterday afternoon at the hospice where she has been living, Yahoo News reports. "It's a slow painful death," said her father Robert Schindler, who with his wife has fought to prevent Terri's death for five years. Around 100 supporters are holdin...

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News, Researchers at the W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, have found that infusing adult stem cells into the coronary arteries after a heart attack reduces damage, Reuters reports. Dr Stefanie Dimmeler and associates isolated stem cells from the bone marrow or blood of 28 heart attack patients...

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