News, The King of Nepal has signed a bill to legalise abortion up to 12 weeks gestation and up to 18 weeks in the case of a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest. The bill to legalise abortion in Nepal was first introduced into the Nepalese parliament in 1996 and its drafting funded by the I...

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News, The South Korean government has proposed a bill to restrict destructive research on cloned human embryos. It is reported that the Life, Ethics and Safety Measures bill also bans so-called reproductive cloning, as well as the genetic treatment of embryos and fetuses. The bill makes human ...

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News, The Vatican's representative at the United Nations has condemned human cloning for so-called therapeutic purposes as discriminatory and "a new kind of racism". Delegates are meeting at the UN in New York this week to consider a proposal for a global ban on human cloning for reproductive ...

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News, A bill to legalise abortion in the Philippines has been hit by a lack of political support. A forum in Baguio City to promote the bill was attended by only one local official. Moreover, two of the bill's co-authors have now withdrawn their authorship, while efforts to find co-authors in ...

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Britain forced to face up to one-child policy Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has forced the British Foreign Office to address for the first time the gross violations of human rights committed under China's one-child policy. Following SPUC-initiated criticism ...

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News, Belgium has become the second country in the world after the Netherlands to legalise euthanasia since the fall of Nazi Germany. The final stage in the passage of Belgium's euthanasia law, which was passed by parliament in May, happened at the end of last week when the government establis...

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News, Two women have begun a legal challenge in the English high court to a law which states that both the father and mother of an IVF embryo must consent to the use or continued storage of their child. Natallie Evans and Lorraine Hadley both want to use their frozen IVF babies in an attempt t...

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News, A UK expert has suggested that it might be safer for pregnant women to abstain from drinking alcohol altogether. Professor Peter Hepper of Queen's University in Belfast made his comments after new research by scientists at San Diego State University in the US indicated that babies whose ...

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News, The synod of the Greek Orthodox Church has criticised a draft law which would allow artificial insemination and fertilisation [IVF]. Legislation proposed by the Greek government to outlaw human cloning and sex selection, except on serious so-called medical grounds, also provides for IVF ...

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News, The Life charity has asked Alan Milburn, the British health secretary, to explain what happens to the bodies of unborn babies killed by the RU-486 abortion drug regimen. Guidelines issued by the department of health in 1991 stipulated that babies born dead before the 24th week of pregnan...

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News, Iain Duncan Smith, the leader of Britain's parliamentary opposition, has condemned the provision of morning-after pills to schoolchildren in a speech to mark the first anniversary of his election as leader of the Conservative party. Mr Duncan Smith supported a campaign by Eileen Wojciech...

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News, The abortifacient morning-after pill is to be offered free of charge to men in Scotland's largest city. Dr Des Spence, one of the doctors leading the 'Choices Project' at the Maryhill Health Centre in Glasgow, said: "The idea is that we should encourage men to play an equal part in contr...

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News, Two women are going to an English court today to seek permission to be implanted with embryos created through in vitro fertilisation despite objections from the embryos' fathers. The law requires consent from both parents and says that, if such consent is absent, the embryos must be dest...

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News, The two most prominent pro-abortionists on Northern Ireland's human rights commission have resigned. Inez McCormack and Christine Bell resigned last night, claiming that they were disappointed by the commission's lack of powers and resources. Betty Gibson, chairman of SPUC Northern Irela...

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News, The Pope has appealed to the British government to respect human life. In an address to Kathryn Frances Colvin, the new British ambassador to the Holy See, Pope John Paul II lamented attempts to legitimise abortion, embryo experimentation and human cloning. He then insisted: "Neither hum...

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News, The United Nations' high commissioner for human rights was rebuffed by the Costa Rican president when she tried to persuade him to sign a document which implicitly supported abortion. During the recent UN development summit, Mrs Mary Robinson hoped to get President Abel Pacheco to suppor...

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News, A minister in Northern Ireland's executive has praised the Brook organisation at a celebration to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of a Brook advisory clinic in Belfast. Sinn Féin's Bairbre de Brún, the pro-abortion minister for health, social services and public safety, said tha...

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News, Pro-lifers have welcomed the outcome of the United Nations world summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg. Agreement on the summit's plan of implemetation was finally reached at 1.30 this morning, and pro-lifers were pleased that the inclusion of pro-abortion language was succe...

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News, It is reported that agreement on the final outcome document of the United Nations Earth Summit in Johannesburg is being held up by a disagreement over the issue of so-called abortion rights. The text as it stands states that the provision of reproductive healthcare for women should be "c...

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News, The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has licensed fertility clinics in London and Nottingham, England, to screen IVF embryos for anomalies such as Down's syndrome. The editor of the Bulletin of Medical Ethics has expressed concern but Ms Suzi Leather, the authority's chairman...

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