News, The House of Lords, Britain's highest court, ruled definitively this afternoon that so-called therapeutic cloning is legal. When parliament voted to authorise the creation and destruction of cloned human embryos for research purposes in December 2000 and January 2001, it did so by amendi...

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News, The health minister of the Philippines has proposed a ban on intra-uterine devices (IUDs) because they may cause early abortions. Manuel Dayrit said last week that he was sceptical about claims by proponents of the IUD that it worked by preventing conception rather than by preventing the...

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News, The health minister of the Philippines has proposed a ban on intra-uterine devices (IUDs) because they may cause early abortions. Manuel Dayrit said last week that he was sceptical about claims by proponents of the IUD that it worked by preventing conception rather than by preventing the imp...

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News, A four-part blood-test is proving more accurate than other methods for detecting unborn children who have Down's syndrome. Researchers from the Barts and London medical school found that the tests were successful in detecting the condition in more than 80% of instances. Other methods prove l...

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News, A four-part blood-test is proving more accurate than other methods for detecting unborn children who have Down's syndrome. Researchers from the Barts and London medical school found that the tests were successful in detecting the condition in more than 80% of instances. Other methods pro...

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News, A neurology professor at Oxford university, England, has suggested that unborn babies are conscious before 24 weeks' gestation, the time-limit for some types of abortion under British law. Baroness Greenfield of Otmoor, director of the Royal Institution, questioned the assumption that th...

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News, A neurology professor at Oxford university, England, has suggested that unborn babies are conscious before 24 weeks' gestation, the time-limit for some types of abortion under British law. Baroness Greenfield of Otmoor, director of the Royal Institution, questioned the assumption that the un...

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News, Some of the most prominent pro-abortionists in the UK have been appointed to the British government's Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV. Hazel Blears, the public health minister, announced yesterday that the chairman of the new body will be Baroness Joyce Gould, who is also...

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News, Some of the most prominent pro-abortionists in the UK have been appointed to the British government's Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV. Hazel Blears, the public health minister, announced yesterday that the chairman of the new body will be Baroness Joyce Gould, who is ...

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News, The Catholic Church in Kenya has issued a firm rebuke to the country's health minister for claiming that the denial to women of abortion was a gross violation of their human rights. A statement issued yesterday by the Kenya Catholic Secretariat insisted that the idea of a "safe abortion"...

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News, The Catholic Church in Kenya has issued a firm rebuke to the country's health minister for claiming that the denial to women of abortion was a gross violation of their human rights. A statement issued yesterday by the Kenya Catholic Secretariat insisted that the idea of a "safe abortion" was...

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News, The government of Kenya is to launch a public debate on abortion with a view to decriminalising it. Mrs Charity Ngilu, Kenya's health minister, told a pro-abortion meeting: "I personally feel the continued denial of women to make free choice on their reproductive health life is wrong and sho...

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News, The government of Kenya is to launch a public debate on abortion with a view to decriminalising it. Mrs Charity Ngilu, Kenya's health minister, told a pro-abortion meeting: "I personally feel the continued denial of women to make free choice on their reproductive health life is wrong and...

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News, A gynaecologist in England who allegedly inflicted serious internal injuries on a woman whose unborn child he was attempting to abort has denied professional misconduct at a disciplinary hearing in London. The General Medical Council's professional conduct committee heard that the accusa...

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News, A gynaecologist in England who allegedly inflicted serious internal injuries on a woman whose unborn child he was attempting to abort has denied professional misconduct at a disciplinary hearing in London. The General Medical Council's professional conduct committee heard that the accusation...

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News, Doctors in the Netherlands are performing euthanasia illegally on thousands of patients because they regard the legal reporting requirements as too bothersome, according to a Dutch television investigation. Euthanasia became formally legal in the Netherlands last year after a decade of medic...

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News, Doctors in the Netherlands are performing euthanasia illegally on thousands of patients because they regard the legal reporting requirements as too bothersome, according to a Dutch television investigation. Euthanasia became formally legal in the Netherlands last year after a decade of m...

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News, An analysis of official government statistics for England and Wales has indicated that 43% of recorded conceptions outside marriage ended in legal abortions in 2001, compared to only 6% of conceptions within marriage. The analysis by the Office for National Statistics, contained within their...

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News, An analysis of official government statistics for England and Wales has indicated that 43% of recorded conceptions outside marriage ended in legal abortions in 2001, compared to only 6% of conceptions within marriage. The analysis by the Office for National Statistics, contained within t...

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News, Official statistics for Denmark released yesterday revealed that 15,315 unborn babies were killed in registered abortions in 2001, although this is nearly 50 percent fewer than in 1975. Denmark legalised abortion in 1973, after which the number of abortions peaked at 27,884 in 1975. The ...

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