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 rele...

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News, A former Presbyterian minister who killed an abortion doctor and his escort has been executed by lethal injection. Paul Hill died unrepentant, calling upon others to follow his example. A spokeswoman for Florida Right to Life condemned Hill's actions. "You do not take the law into your own h...

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News, A former Presbyterian minister who killed an abortion doctor and his escort has been executed by lethal injection. Paul Hill died unrepentant, calling upon others to follow his example. A spokeswoman for Florida Right to Life condemned Hill's actions. "You do not take the law into your o...

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News, UK government advisors will consider increasing pre-natal screening to reduce the number of babies born with Fragile X Syndrome. The proposals are being made on the grounds that it would be 'cost-effective' to screen all pregnant women if the majority then aborted babies found to have a ...

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News, UK government advisors will consider increasing pre-natal screening to reduce the number of babies born with Fragile X Syndrome. The proposals are being made on the grounds that it would be 'cost-effective' to screen all pregnant women if the majority then aborted babies found to have a disa...

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News, A pregnant mentally disabled woman who became the centre of a court battle over disabled and foetal rights has given birth to a baby girl. The Florida woman, known only as J. D. S, became pregnant after she was raped at her group home and came to media attention when Governor Jeb Bush asked ...

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News, A pregnant mentally disabled woman who became the centre of a court battle over disabled and foetal rights has given birth to a baby girl. The Florida woman, known only as J. D. S, became pregnant after she was raped at her group home and came to media attention when Governor Jeb Bush as...

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News, The UK Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) has begun an investigation into discrimination against pregnant women in the workplace. According to a recent survey, one in five pregnant women are affected, many of whom are given unsuitable duties, face unpleasant remarks or criticism and un...

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News, The UK Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) has begun an investigation into discrimination against pregnant women in the workplace. According to a recent survey, one in five pregnant women are affected, many of whom are given unsuitable duties, face unpleasant remarks or criticism and unfair...

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News, The Chinese Department of Health (DOH) has retracted a proposal to allow married people to undergo an abortion or sterilisation without the agreement of their spouses, The China Post reports. The proposed amendment to the law was withdrawn by the head of the health department, Chen Cien-Jen,...

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News, The Chinese Department of Health (DOH) has retracted a proposal to allow married people to undergo an abortion or sterilisation without the agreement of their spouses, The China Post reports. The proposed amendment to the law was withdrawn by the head of the health department, Chen Cien-...

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News, UK doctors have expressed fears that the National Health Service could be overwhelmed with requests for free IVF treatment if it becomes available. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) published draft guidelines on Tuesday which proposed making IVF available on the NHS f...

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News, UK doctors have expressed fears that the National Health Service could be overwhelmed with requests for free IVF treatment if it becomes available. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) published draft guidelines on Tuesday which proposed making IVF available on the NHS for w...

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News, Governor Jeb Bush has asked the judge in the Terri Schiavo case to postpone the decision to end her life. Governor Bush's office has received 27,000 emails from people appealing for his intervention in the case but Judge George Greer has said that he probably will not delay the removal of th...

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News, Governor Jeb Bush has asked the judge in the Terri Schiavo case to postpone the decision to end her life. Governor Bush's office has received 27,000 emails from people appealing for his intervention in the case but Judge George Greer has said that he probably will not delay the removal o...

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News, A Pennsylvania judge has upheld the conviction of a women convicted of third-degree murder after she attacked her husband's pregnant girlfriend and caused her to suffer a miscarriage. Corinne Wilcott, who attacked the woman after a graduation party, is serving a 7-20 year prison sentence...

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News, A Pennsylvania judge has upheld the conviction of a women convicted of third-degree murder after she attacked her husband's pregnant girlfriend and caused her to suffer a miscarriage. Corinne Wilcott, who attacked the woman after a graduation party, is serving a 7-20 year prison sentence. Pe...

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News, A 56-year-old grandmother desperate for another child has put ads in shops and a newspaper in Hampshire, England, to find an egg donor. Mrs Priscilla Eatwell, who was sterilised at the age of 24 after having two children and later had another via IVF, was turned down for further treatment be...

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News, A 56-year-old grandmother desperate for another child has put ads in shops and a newspaper in Hampshire, England, to find an egg donor. Mrs Priscilla Eatwell, who was sterilised at the age of 24 after having two children and later had another via IVF, was turned down for further treatmen...

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News, The professor whose team at King's College London created the UK's first stem cell line from IVF embryos, has defended the work as "wholly ethical" on the grounds that the embryos would otherwise have been discarded. Professor Peter Braude stated: "The UK stem cell bank is an idea worth ...

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