Will incapacity bill be in the Queen’s speech? Will incapacity bill be in the Queen’s speech? Westminster, --Concern is mounting about the government's controversial draft Mental Incapacity Bill. This week in Parliament, parliamentarians, leading lawyers and doctors have made critical and alarmi...

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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 doctor...

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News, Ian Brady, who is serving a life sentence for child murder, is to be granted the right to give evidence at a public hearing to declare whether or not he is insane. Brady has been tube-fed since he stopped eating in 1999 and a high court judge ruled that he was incapable of making a decis...

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News, Ian Brady, who is serving a life sentence for child murder, is to be granted the right to give evidence at a public hearing to declare whether or not he is insane. Brady has been tube-fed since he stopped eating in 1999 and a high court judge ruled that he was incapable of making a decision ...

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News, A group supporting the British government's Mental Incapacity Bill has advocated euthanasia by omission. In an oral evidence session of the parliamentary committee considering the bill yesterday, the Making Decisions Alliance (MDA) said that a doctor who omitted to provide feeding by tube wo...

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News, A group supporting the British government's Mental Incapacity Bill has advocated euthanasia by omission. In an oral evidence session of the parliamentary committee considering the bill yesterday, the Making Decisions Alliance (MDA) said that a doctor who omitted to provide feeding by tub...

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News, Japanese scientists claim to have coaxed embryonic stem cells from mice into becoming sperm cells, the Financial Times reports. Toshiaki Noce and his team at the Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences believe that the work will aid understanding about how sperm and egg develop as w...

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News, Japanese scientists claim to have coaxed embryonic stem cells from mice into becoming sperm cells, the Financial Times reports. Toshiaki Noce and his team at the Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences believe that the work will aid understanding about how sperm and egg develop as well ...

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News, A private member's bill to prohibit euthanasia by denial of sustenance has been passed by Britain's upper house of parliament. The Patients' Protection Bill, sponsored by veteran pro-life peer Baroness Knight of Collingtree, received its final reading in the House of Lords last Friday and wa...

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News, A private member's bill to prohibit euthanasia by denial of sustenance has been passed by Britain's upper house of parliament. The Patients' Protection Bill, sponsored by veteran pro-life peer Baroness Knight of Collingtree, received its final reading in the House of Lords last Friday an...

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News, The British fertility specialist Lord Robert Winston has criticised the poorly researched fertility treatments being used in clinics across the UK. He claims that the potential risks to the health of IVF babies posed by procedures such as embryo freezing have been largely ignored because...

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News, The British fertility specialist Lord Robert Winston has criticised the poorly researched fertility treatments being used in clinics across the UK. He claims that the potential risks to the health of IVF babies posed by procedures such as embryo freezing have been largely ignored because of ...

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News, No Less Human, a group within SPUC, has sent a submission to the Isle of Man's House of Keys' select committee on euthanasia. The document, authored by Alison Davis, argues that it is fundamentally wrong to kill, whether or not the person requests death and warns that safeguards in any eutha...

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News, No Less Human, a group within SPUC, has sent a submission to the Isle of Man's House of Keys' select committee on euthanasia. The document, authored by Alison Davis, argues that it is fundamentally wrong to kill, whether or not the person requests death and warns that safeguards in any e...

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News, The Belgian Medical Journal has claimed that euthanasia cases are being carried out unreported. Official figures record 170 cases of euthanasia since it was legalised in September 2003 but it is claimed that two or three times that number have occurred. [Expatica.com, 2 September ] A rep...

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Disabled people oppose euthanasia on Isle of Man London, --Legalising euthanasia on the Isle of Man would compromise the right to life of disabled and sick people and further undermine their dignity and status, according to a disability rights group. The submission by No Less Human to the House of K...

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News, The Belgian Medical Journal has claimed that euthanasia cases are being carried out unreported. Official figures record 170 cases of euthanasia since it was legalised in September 2003 but it is claimed that two or three times that number have occurred. [Expatica.com, 2 September] A report p...

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News, An Indian soap opera is tackling the issue of sex selective abortion in a bid to raise awareness about the problem and to change attitudes, The Observer reports. Pre-natal gender screening has been illegal since 1994 but continues to be widely practised. 90% of the estimated 3.5 million babi...

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News, An Indian soap opera is tackling the issue of sex selective abortion in a bid to raise awareness about the problem and to change attitudes, The Observer reports. Pre-natal gender screening has been illegal since 1994 but continues to be widely practised. 90% of the estimated 3.5 million ...

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News, The Irish Family Planning Association has called for the ban on abortion in Ireland to be lifted. The IFPA claims that 9000 women travel abroad for abortions every year. [Irish News, 5 September ] The coalition of pro-family, pro-life and pro-women organisations NEART have issued a press...

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