News, Lord Joffe's bill to legalise euthanasia ran into stiff opposition during a seven-hour debate at the House of Lords on Friday. In keeping with convention, the bill was given its second reading unopposed but it is unlikely to become law. In spite of widespread media support for the bill, ...

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News, More than fifty Peers are to debate the Joffe Patient (Assisted Dying) Bill in the House of Lords today. Lord Joffe's Private Members Bill, if it were to come into effect, would allow a terminally or incurably ill patient to request medical assistance to commit suicide. [icliverpool.co.u]...

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News, More than fifty Peers are to debate the Joffe Patient (Assisted Dying) Bill in the House of Lords today. Lord Joffe's Private Members Bill, if it were to come into effect, would allow a terminally or incurably ill patient to request medical assistance to commit suicide. [icliverpool.co.uk, 6]...

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News, The US Congress voted yesterday to ban partial birth abortion by a margin of 282-139. Partial birth abortion, which involves the puncturing of the partially delivered baby's skull, will be outlawed in all states if it becomes a part of federal law. "Partial birth abortion is a gruesome and i...

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News, The US Congress voted yesterday to ban partial birth abortion by a margin of 282-139. Partial birth abortion, which involves the puncturing of the partially delivered baby's skull, will be outlawed in all states if it becomes a part of federal law. "Partial birth abortion is a gruesome a...

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News, Chaplains working in hospices and palliative care will not support the legalisation of assisted suicide, the Church Times has reported. At their annual conference in Swanwick, hospice chaplains came out against Lord Joffe's Patient (Assisted Dying) Bill, stating that instead of giving ph...

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News, Chaplains working in hospices and palliative care will not support the legalisation of assisted suicide, the Church Times has reported. At their annual conference in Swanwick, hospice chaplains came out against Lord Joffe's Patient (Assisted Dying) Bill, stating that instead of giving physic...

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News, A study conducted by the Family Planning Association of Northern Ireland (FPANI) claims that up to 12,000 women a year may be travelling to Britain for abortions from Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, double the number reported by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS). The rea...

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News, A study conducted by the Family Planning Association of Northern Ireland (FPANI) claims that up to 12,000 women a year may be travelling to Britain for abortions from Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, double the number reported by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS). The...

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News, The Miami court ruling that a disabled woman should have her six-month old child aborted and undergo sterilisation was carried out last Thursday at the Jackson Memorial Hospital. The abortion went ahead in spite of reports by Liberty Counsel that the woman had been persuaded to have the ...

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News, The Miami court ruling that a disabled woman should have her six-month old child aborted and undergo sterilisation was carried out last Thursday at the Jackson Memorial Hospital. The abortion went ahead in spite of reports by Liberty Counsel that the woman had been persuaded to have the baby...

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News, An 84-year-old man has been told that he will not be prosecuted over the death of his wife last year, a New Zealand news agency has reported. Ralph Vincent, whose wife Vicky was found dead with a plastic bag over her head after years of ill health, was told by police that charges of assistin...

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News, An 84-year-old man has been told that he will not be prosecuted over the death of his wife last year, a New Zealand news agency has reported. Ralph Vincent, whose wife Vicky was found dead with a plastic bag over her head after years of ill health, was told by police that charges of assis...

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News, A court in the Australian province of Victoria has given doctors permission to stop feeding a 68-year-old woman suffering from a rare form of dementia, according to a BBC report. After two days of submissions and a week of deliberation, Judge Stuart Morris ruled that tube feeding constit...

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News, A court in the Australian province of Victoria has given doctors permission to stop feeding a 68-year-old woman suffering from a rare form of dementia, according to a BBC report. After two days of submissions and a week of deliberation, Judge Stuart Morris ruled that tube feeding constitutes...

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News, A Briton suffering from Motor Neurone Disease has died at the Swiss assisted suicide clinic run by Dignitas. John Close, 54, from Milton Keynes took an overdose of barbiturates in the presence of his sister and other family members. Dignitas is currently being investigated by the Swiss autho...

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News, A Briton suffering from Motor Neurone Disease has died at the Swiss assisted suicide clinic run by Dignitas. John Close, 54, from Milton Keynes took an overdose of barbiturates in the presence of his sister and other family members. Dignitas is currently being investigated by the Swiss a...

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News, Clare Short, the former British Secretary of State for International Development, has attacked SPUC for its claims about her support for abortion and population control. In a letter to the Catholic Times in response to SPUC's comment on her resignation from the British government (see SP...

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News, Clare Short, the former British Secretary of State for International Development, has attacked SPUC for its claims about her support for abortion and population control. In a letter to the Catholic Times in response to SPUC's comment on her resignation from the British government (see SPUC r...

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News, Doctors may have broken British Medical Association guidelines when they did not consult a patient or her family before writing on her medical notes that she should not be resuscitated. Mr Cyril Smith says he saw the instruction on the notes of Mrs Jean Smith, his 81-year-old wife, who was b...

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