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 w...

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News, A lawyer has argued in the supreme court of Victoria, Australia, that the provision of food and fluid by tube is medical treatment. Mr Julian Burnside, QC, who is acting for the guardian of an unidentified 68-year-old woman from Melbourne, said that the case was not about euthanasia or m...

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News, A lawyer has argued in the supreme court of Victoria, Australia, that the provision of food and fluid by tube is medical treatment. Mr Julian Burnside, QC, who is acting for the guardian of an unidentified 68-year-old woman from Melbourne, said that the case was not about euthanasia or mercy...

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News, SPUC has called for women to be told the truth about the potentially fatal effect of birth control pills on their unborn children. SPUC was commenting after researchers at Tromsø university, Norway, found a 45% increase in the risk of breast cancer among women who took second generation birt...

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News, SPUC has called for women to be told the truth about the potentially fatal effect of birth control pills on their unborn children. SPUC was commenting after researchers at Tromsø university, Norway, found a 45% increase in the risk of breast cancer among women who took second generation ...

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News, The Levonelle abortifacient morning-after pill will become available on prescription in Ireland next month. Doctors already prescribe Ovram, a high dose of oestrogen and progesterone which can stop ovulation or prevent embryos from implanting in the womb. Levonelle has fewer side effects...

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SPUC calls for the truth about the pill Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has called for women to be told the truth about the potentially fatal effect of birth control pills on their unborn children. SPUC was commenting after researchers at Tromsø university, No...

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News, The Levonelle abortifacient morning-after pill will become available on prescription in Ireland next month. Doctors already prescribe Ovram, a high dose of oestrogen and progesterone which can stop ovulation or prevent embryos from implanting in the womb. Levonelle has fewer side effects, it...

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News, A judge who ruled that a baby could be created to provide a bone marrow transplant for a sibling has insisted that the decision will not allow parents to select their IVF embryos on social grounds. Lord Justice Schiemann was one of the English appeal court judges who last month found that th...

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News, A judge who ruled that a baby could be created to provide a bone marrow transplant for a sibling has insisted that the decision will not allow parents to select their IVF embryos on social grounds. Lord Justice Schiemann was one of the English appeal court judges who last month found tha...

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News, National government funding for measures to cut teenage pregnancy, including the provision of abortifacient morning-after pills, has been significantly inceased in a local authority area in south-east England. Medway council, Kent, will receive £105,000 in this financial year, a 75% incr...

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News, National government funding for measures to cut teenage pregnancy, including the provision of abortifacient morning-after pills, has been significantly inceased in a local authority area in south-east England. Medway council, Kent, will receive £105,000 in this financial year, a 75% increase...

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News, The Clonaid company which claims to have cloned five humans has published a picture of one of the babies whom it says it has created. Dr Brigitte Boisselier, Clonaid's president, and Raël, the leader of the Raelian cult, exhibited the photograph on a computer in Brazil where Raël has been pr...

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News, The Clonaid company which claims to have cloned five humans has published a picture of one of the babies whom it says it has created. Dr Brigitte Boisselier, Clonaid's president, and Raël, the leader of the Raelian cult, exhibited the photograph on a computer in Brazil where Raël has bee...

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News, Legislators in the Isle of Man, a dependency of the British crown in the Irish sea, have agreed to consider draft legislation to legalise euthanasia. The House of Keys, the island's parliament, voted for the measure by 15 to four and mandated a five-person select committee to take eviden...

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News, Legislators in the Isle of Man, a dependency of the British crown in the Irish sea, have agreed to consider draft legislation to legalise euthanasia. The House of Keys, the island's parliament, voted for the measure by 15 to four and mandated a five-person select committee to take evidence a...

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News, SPUC has commented on the resignation of the British international development secretary on which we reported yesterday. Anthony Ozimic, SPUC's political spokesman said: "We do not mourn Clare Short's resignation from the government, but we mourn instead the countless numbers of innocent unb...

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News, SPUC has commented on the resignation of the British international development secretary on which we reported yesterday . Anthony Ozimic, SPUC's political spokesman said: "We do not mourn Clare Short's resignation from the government, but we mourn instead the countless numbers of innocen...

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News, Ms Clare Short, the pro-population control British secretary of state for international development, has resigned from the British government over the government's approach to post-war reconstruction in Iraq. [BBC, 12 May ]. Throughout her tenure in office, Ms Short was a constant promot...

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Clare Short "not mourned" by pro-lifers Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has commented on the resignation of Ms Clare Short, the British Secretary of State for International Development. SPUC political spokesman Anthony Ozimic commented: "We do not mourn the re...

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