News, A UK researcher believes that couples will want to create embryos for use in destructive research when they see its benefits, LifeNews reports. The director of the Institute for Stem Cell Research at Edinburgh University, Professor Austin Smith, stated that it would be better to ask coup...

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News, A UK researcher believes that couples will want to create embryos for use in destructive research when they see its benefits, LifeNews reports. The director of the Institute for Stem Cell Research at Edinburgh University, Professor Austin Smith, stated that it would be better to ask couples ...

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News, SPUC is enthusiastically supporting the Irish Catholic bishops' Day for Life on the 12th of next month, a Sunday. Mrs Betty Gibson, chairwoman of SPUC Northern Ireland, said: "The fundamental right to life is under threat in both parts of Ireland. In Northern Ireland there are the Family Pla...

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News, SPUC is enthusiastically supporting the Irish Catholic bishops' Day for Life on the 12th of next month, a Sunday. Mrs Betty Gibson, chairwoman of SPUC Northern Ireland, said: "The fundamental right to life is under threat in both parts of Ireland. In Northern Ireland there are the Family...

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Pro life campaigners urge support for bishops’ Day for Life Pro-life campaigners urge support for bishops’ Day for Life Belfast, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, leading pro-life campaigners in Northern Ireland, has welcomed the decision of the Roman Catholic bishops of Irela...

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Experts alarmed by euthanasia plans for England and Wales Westminster, --The government is planning to legislate for passive euthanasia and its proposals would also lead to active killing by doctors, experts warned at a major conference in central London this afternoon. A large audience from as far ...

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News, A man left severely disabled after an accident three years ago has died from an overdose of barbiturates administered by his mother. Vincent Humbert, 22, was paralysed, blind and mute and had repeatedly asked to die. Last year, he sent a letter to President Chirac asking for an exception...

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News, A man left severely disabled after an accident three years ago has died from an overdose of barbiturates administered by his mother. Vincent Humbert, 22, was paralysed, blind and mute and had repeatedly asked to die. Last year, he sent a letter to President Chirac asking for an exception to ...

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News, SPUC has criticised Britain's third largest political party for proposing that compulsory school sex education should begin at the age of seven. Calling the Liberal Democrats' move "deplorable" and "politically stupid", John Smeaton, SPUC's national director, said: "Decades of what amounts t...

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News, SPUC has criticised Britain's third largest political party for proposing that compulsory school sex education should begin at the age of seven. Calling the Liberal Democrats' move "deplorable" and "politically stupid", John Smeaton, SPUC's national director, said: "Decades of what amount...

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News, If the United Nations only partially bans cloning, it would produce the first UN convention which required the killing of innocent humans, according to a pro-life lobbyist. Miss Jeanne Head of National Right to Life was speaking prior to a decisive meeting from the 29th of this month til...

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Major conference this Saturday on government euthanasia plans Westminster, --A major conference will be held in central London this Saturday warning of government plans to introduce legislation permitting euthanasia by neglect. Leading ethicists, doctors and lawyers will explain "The dangers of the ...

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SPUC condemns call for compulsory sex education in primary school Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned the call by the Liberal Democrat party for children as young as seven to be subjected to compulsory sex education. John Smeaton, SPUC national direc...

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News, If the United Nations only partially bans cloning, it would produce the first UN convention which required the killing of innocent humans, according to a pro-life lobbyist. Miss Jeanne Head of National Right to Life was speaking prior to a decisive meeting from the 29th of this month till th...

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News, The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have issued a statement urging the government to support a UN ban on all forms of human cloning. Yesterday, Archbishop Peter Smith met health minister Melanie Johnson to put forward the case for a ban. [Catholic Communications Service, 23 September] ...

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News, The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have issued a statement urging the government to support a UN ban on all forms of human cloning. Yesterday, Archbishop Peter Smith met health minister Melanie Johnson to put forward the case for a ban. [Catholic Communications Service, 23 Septemb]...

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News, An 18-year-old woman died last week from complications thought to have been caused by the RU-486 abortion pill. Holly Patterson developed severe cramps and bleeding after taking the pill but was told by doctors that it was a normal part of the process. She was later admitted to hospital ...

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Attack on early human life condemned by pro-life campaigners Westminster, --Pro-life campaigners reacted today against a statement by Lord May, speaking on behalf of the Inter Academy Panel, calling for only a limited restriction on human cloning. Such a restriction would be designed to permit cloni...

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News, An 18-year-old woman died last week from complications thought to have been caused by the RU-486 abortion pill. Holly Patterson developed severe cramps and bleeding after taking the pill but was told by doctors that it was a normal part of the process. She was later admitted to hospital with...

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News, Australia is requiring pharmaceutical companies to label products developed or tested with human embryonic stem cells, allowing those with moral objections to boycott the products. Dr David van Gend, the medical spokesman for Do No Harm, said: "it was only proper that patients and doctors ha...

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