News, Newly released data has indicated that success rates for IVF treatment in the UK are improving, but that the vast majority of embryos created through IVF still perish in the process. Statistics released by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority indicate that the success of IVF ...

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News, Protestants and Catholics in Scotland have condemned plans to establish the UK's first embryonic stem cell bank. A spokesman for the Catholic Church in Scotland said that the Church was completely opposed both to the use of embryos in research and to asking parents to donate their embryo...

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News, The British department of health has welcomed news that stem cells extracted from thousands of human embryos are to be stored in the UK's first national stem cell bank [see yesterday's digest ]. A spokesman for the department said: "The cell bank will provide researchers with accredited ...

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News, SPUC has condemned a call by Ms Clare Short, Britain's international development secretary, for abortion to be declared a human right at the United Nations Earth Summit now underway in Johannesburg. Peter Smith, SPUC's delegate at the summit, said: "Clare Short still seems stuck in the l...

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SPUC condemns Clare Short's calls for more abortions SPUC condemns Clare Short's calls for more abortions Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned Britain's international development secretary's call for abortion to be declared a human right at the Ea...

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SPUC rejects Lib Dem attack on pro-child campaign Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has expressed dismay at the Liberal Democrats' condemnation of SPUC's anti-morning-after pill campaign. In a press release today, Liberal Democrat health spokesman Sandra Gidley ...

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News, Provisional figures released by the Office for National Statistics in England and Wales have indicated that 47,100 unborn children were killed in registered abortions during the first three months of this year. The number of abortions performed in the first quarter of 2002 was 800 fewer ...

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News, Sainsbury's, a British supermarket chain, has confirmed that its stores are providing the abortifacient morning-after pill free of charge to young teenage girls. Just over a month after Tesco, another supermarket chain, announced that it was abandoning its own involvement in a government...

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SPUC condemns Sainsbury’s for handing out abortion pills to underage girls SPUC condemns Sainsbury’s for handing out abortion pills to underage girls Westminster, --Pro-lifers have expressed concern and disappointment at the news that Sainsbury's is handing out free morning-after pills to girls ...

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China and Vietnam need running water, not UNFPA China and Vietnam need running water, not UNFPA Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has called on European Union governments to stop funding the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) after the publication of Wor...

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News, SPUC has renewed its call for European Union governments to stop funding the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) after it was revealed that more women had access to abortifacient birth control methods than safe drinking water in China and Vietnam. The 2002 World Bank Atla...

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News, New guidelines prepared by the UK's General Medical Council state that patients have a right to refuse life-sustaining treatment and care, according to a report in The Times newspaper. The guidelines, which were drawn up by a working group led by Professor David Hatch, state that patient...

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News, Pro-lifers have reacted with alarm at news that the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is opening an emergency mobile hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, to provide so-called maternity health services. Scott Weinberg of the US-based Population Research Institute said: "We're...

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News, It has emerged that a Chinese family is hoping to cite China's coercive abortion policy in an application for asylum in the United States. Mr Bing Jia and his daughter Yukun are already in the US, but Mrs Hong Jia is thought to have gone into hiding back in China. Mr Jia and his daughter...

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News, A British government minister has cited the "appalling symbolism" in the deaths of two unborn children in a terrorist bomb attack in Northern Ireland fours years ago. The bomb planted in Omagh by Republican terrorists killed 31 people, including two unborn children, although the unborn v...

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News, An investigation by the BBC has revealed that a Swiss company is helping foreign nationals to commit suicide in Zurich. A report on last night's Newsnight programme on British national television revealed that Dignitas, a company based in Zurich, has so far assisted over 100 terminally, ...

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News, Health officials in a London borough have expressed concern at the fact that only a small number of girls have so far made use of a 12-month trial scheme whereby the morning-after pill is being made available free of charge. The London borough of Hillingdon's primary care trust is making...

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Embryos are human beings not property, says SPUC Embryos are human beings not property, says SPUC London, --The Society for the Protection on Unborn Children (SPUC) has expressed distress at recent disputes between estranged couples over the fate of their frozen embryonic children. Anthony Ozimi...

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News, Official figures released today by the Japanese health ministry indicate that the number of abortions performed on teenagers has risen by 178% in six years. A total of 341,588 unborn children were killed in registered abortions in Japan last year, 0.1% more than in 2000. However, 46,511 ...

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News, Marie Stopes International (MSI), a worldwide provider and promoter of abortion, is opening clinics in Afghanistan. The main MSI clinic will be located in a busy part of the capital Kabul and will provide so-called reproductive healthcare, counselling and education, as well as training f...

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