News, The Maltese government has been hailing its EU accession package, including a protocol which formally recognises Malta's right to retain its pro-life laws. Malta was one of 10 countries formally invited to become full members of the European Union last week. If the accession packages are...

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News, A programme to help pregnant women stop smoking has succeeded in only a fifth of cases. A Cardiff university survey of some 1,500 expectant mothers found that just 19% of women using the five booklets in the Stop for Good programme had not smoked for seven days after 26 weeks of pregnanc...

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News, An embryologist has been convicted of deceiving eight women by arranging for them to have saline solution placed in their wombs instead of embryos. Mr Paul Fielding, 44, was yesterday found guilty of assault and false accounting by a court in Southampton, England. Mr Fielding, who has be...

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News, The British government is to spend £40 million on stem cell research over two years. [Ananova, 9 December ] SPUC has condemned the almost six-fold increase in funding for research which is aimed at finding ways to generate tissue for spare-parts surgery from cloned human embryos. Paul Tu...

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SPUC condemns government funding boost for cloned-embryo research Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned today's announcement of an almost six-fold increase in funding for stem cell research - aimed at finding ways to generate tissue for spare-parts sur...

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SPUC condemns government on overseas aid priorities London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned the British government for giving more bilateral overseas aid for abortion and population control than for clean drinking water. In a newly-published report1, the Depa...

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News, The architect of Britain's embryology law has rejected the idea that human embryos should be treated with "respect". Baroness Warnock, whose committee drew up the report which led to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, told the House of Lords last night that she now regrette...

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News, Earlier today the Australian senate approved a bill to authorise destructive research on human embryos by 45 votes to 26. The bill will now return to the lower house of parliament for approval of some minor amendments before being presented to the Governor General for royal assent. Mr Jo...

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News, The Irish government has re-affirmed its commitment to fund the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). In response to an attack by the Irish Family Planning Association on Dana Rosemary Scallon for her campaign against unconstitutional Irish funding of abortions overseas [s]...

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News, The English high court in London has begun hearing a legal challenge to the power of the UK's fertility regulator to issue licences for so-called designer babies. Josephine Quintavalle, acting on behalf of Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE), was given permission in July to mount a jud...

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News, Two English primary care trusts have withdrawn permission from Tesco supermarkets to provide the abortifacient morning-after pill free of charge because Tesco has decided not to provide the drug to under-16s. It is reported that the Central Cheshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) has followed ...

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News, The government of Namibia has ruled out liberalising abortion law for at least the next 10 years. Dr Libertina Amathila, the Namibian health minister, appeared to support legalised abortion, but said that pressure from religious groups meant that the people would not accept it. A law dat...

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Dana Rosemary Scallon, a prominent pro-life member of the European parliament from Ireland, has announced that she is considering high court action if the Irish government fails to protect the constitutional right of Irish taxpayers not to fund abortions through the European Union. Poul Nielson, the...

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News, The leader of the Catholic Church in Peru has been criticised by legislators from several parties for his outspoken opposition to the proposed legalisation of abortion in the constitution. An amendment to Article 2 of the constitution agreed last month by the Peruvian congress states tha...

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News, It is reported that Peru has refused to accept a grant from the UK government's department for international development because it was intended for projects which may have included the promotion of abortion. An extremely biased report by the pro-abortion Center for Health and Gender Equ...

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A newspaper in Birmingham, England, has reported that a local girl had an abortion last year at the age of just nine. The story follows a report in the same paper about plans to make the abortifacient morning-after pill available in youth clubs. The paper also reveals that more than 120 girls under ...

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News, The general synod of the Church of England has voted overwhelmingly in favour of restricting the abuses of Britain's Abortion Act. Meeting in London earlier this month, the governing body of the mother church of the worldwide Anglican (Episcopal) communion voted by 222 to 22 in favour of...

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News, The European parliament voted today by a large majority in favour of a total ban on human cloning. An amendment to a report on life sciences and biotechnology which calls on the European commission and EU member states to push for a comprehensive cloning ban was adopted by 271 votes to 1...

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European parliament further isolates Blair on cloning London, --Pro-lifers have applauded the European parliament for today's vote in favour of a complete ban on human cloning, both for reproductive and therapeutic purposes. MEPs voted by 271 to 154 in favour of an amendment to a report on life scie...

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News, Abortion was likened to murder in the Welsh national assembly yesterday. During a debate in the assembly's health committee on technical changes to regulations governing abortion notification forms, David Davies, a Conservative frontbencher, said: "I have never understood the argument th...

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