News, The state government of Kano in Nigeria has announced a crackdown on private hospitals and clinics which perform illegal abortions. A task force has been established to monitor the activities of private facilities and the government intends to prosecute those found to have performed unau...

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News, Participants in an international bioethics forum have agreed a number of resolutions in defence of the human embryo. About 600 people attended the conference on the embryo in Brussels last weekend, which opened with a message of support from Pope John Paul II. At the end of the meeting, ...

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News, European pro-lifers are being urged to contact their members of the European parliament ahead of a vote in the parliament on Thursday which will decide the EU's budget for the year ahead. The amount allotted in the budget for "population and reproductive health" aid overseas is 14 millio...

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News, Russia's chief gynaecologist has told a news conference that his country's abortion rate remains second only to that of Romania. Vladimir Kulakov, head of Russia's Scientific Centre for Girls, said that 60% of all Russian pregnancies ended in abortion, and that a further 10% ended in mis...

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News, The German delegate to negotiations on a proposed United Nations convention against human cloning has described the pro-life position of the United States as "morally questionable". In a rare breach of protocol, Christian Müch, the German legal adviser to the UN, criticised the American ...

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News, Pro-lifers are urging delegates at the United Nations to back a complete ban on human cloning. The next meeting to discuss a proposed convention against cloning is taking place today and tomorrow (17-18 October), and another meeting is planned for 6 November. The final decision will be a...

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News, It is reported that the head of the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund has met officials of the World Bank and religious figures in London to discuss how to use religion in its efforts to limit population size. Ms Thoraya Obaid said her organisation wanted to use the influence o...

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News, Parents have expressed fears for the lives of their frozen IVF embryos after it emerged that the English fertility clinic where they are being stored is to close. St George's hospital, Tooting, London, announced the sudden closure of its Assisted Conception Service last week amid concern...

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News, For the first time in Britain, a child has been born after being conceived from an egg which had been frozen for six months. Previously, embryos have been frozen and stored, but this is the first UK birth from a frozen egg, which was thawed and then fertilised. Medical staff in Walsall, ...

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News, The first official case of legal euthanasia in Belgium has provoked an outcry after it was claimed that the killing was simply an illegal publicity stunt. 39-year-old Mario Verstraete, who suffered from multiple sclerosis, died from lethal injection on 30 September, exactly a week after ...

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News, Pro-lifers on both sides of the Irish Sea have urged voters in the Republic of Ireland to reject the Nice treaty in the forthcoming referendum on 19 October. Dana Rosemary Scallon, the pro-life member of the European parliament for Connaught and Ulster, warned that the treaty would furth...

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News, A major study sponsored by a British government department has found that one in four general medical practices in England include a doctor who will not give consent to abortion. The teenage pregnancy unit at the department of health based the figure on responses from 40% of England's 4,...

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SPUC says Ireland should reject Nice treaty London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) is urging Irish Catholics to vote against the Nice treaty because it fears that, if the treaty is ratified, Ireland will be persuaded to allow human embryo research. In a message to the cle...

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News, The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has reacted critically to a report on ethical standards for the genetic screening and destruction of human embryos. SPUC general secretary Paul Tully commented: "Although the report issued by the Nuffield Council of Bioethics, Gene...

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Scientists should not decide which lives to end, says SPUC Scientists should not decide which lives to end, says SPUC London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has reacted critically to a report on ethical standards for the genetic screening and destruction of human embr...

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Abortion contributes to population ageing now be vigilant against euthanasia, warns SPUC Abortion contributes to population ageing - now be vigilant against euthanasia, warns SPUC London, -- The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has expressed concern over latest population fig...

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News, The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has expressed concern over latest population figures which reveal that there are now more over-60s than under-16s for the first time among the UK population. SPUC general secretary Paul Tully commented: "Since 1970 there has been a...

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News, Official abortion figures for England and Wales show the number of abortions funded by the state last year was the highest ever at 134,705. 186,274 abortions were recorded and 176,364 were performed on residents. The figures exclude 'hidden abortions' by so-called emergency contraception...

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Highest ever number of state-funded abortions London, --The official 2001 abortion figures show the number of abortions funded by the NHS was the highest ever at 134,705. 186,274 abortions were recorded in England and Wales. 176,364 were performed on residents. Overall, at least one baby dies by abo...

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Unborn should be protected by insurance and benefits, says SPUC Unborn should be protected by insurance and benefits, says SPUC London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), the world's first pro-life lobbying and educational organisation, has applauded the US administratio...

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