News, SPUC has expressed sympathy and condolences to the British prime minister and his wife after their unborn child died in a miscarriage. It is understood that Mrs Cherie Blair, who is 47, had known that she was pregnant. She is now recovering at Chequers, the prime minister's official coun...

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News, Baroness Warnock has proposed the legalisation of euthanasia on the basis that the law already permits the abortion of handicapped unborn children. Lady Warnock, whose report in the 1980s led to the legal regulation of IVF and embryo experimentation in the UK, stirred controversy last mo...

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News, Pro-lifers have warned that the Irish government is in danger of breaching the country's constitution unless it blocks European Union funding of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). The European Commission announced last m...

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News, A British couple have been refused permission to create a designer baby to serve as a bone marrow donor for their seriously ill son. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) ruled yesterday that Jayson and Michelle Whitaker from Oxford could not use in vitro fertilisation ...

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News, The British government has admitted that the country's falling birth-rate threatens funding of state retirement pensions. Baroness Hollis of Heigham, a work and pensions minister, told parliament on Tuesday that the current ratio of 3.4 working people per retired person would fall to aro...

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Government admits under-population threat to National Insurance London, --The British government has admitted for the first time that the decline in births may threaten National Insurance. In a parliamentary answer on Tuesday, work and pensions minister Baroness Hollis said that the current ratio of...

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News, It is reported that the national governments of European Union countries are close to agreeing on a proposal which would postpone EU funding of destructive research on human embryos. The sixth framework programme for research, which is based on the Caudron report, constitutes the EU's re...

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News, A British government minister has claimed that the RU-486 abortion drug is less likely to cause psychological damage to women than a spontaneous miscarriage. In a parliamentary answer, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, a health minister, highlighted "the negative psychological impact of miscarri...

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Government tries to deny post-abortion trauma London, --A British government minister has claimed that the RU-486 abortion drug is less likely to cause psychological damage to women than a spontaneous miscarriage. In a parliamentary answer, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, a health minister, highlighted "t...

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News, It has been claimed that the introduction of cut-price air travel between Ireland and the English Midlands has led to a big rise in the number of Irish women travelling there for abortions. Reports suggest that the number of women each year from the Republic of Ireland or Northern Irelan...

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News, The Malaysian government is considering whether to legalise abortion in cases of rape and incest. Abortion is already legal in Malaysia to prevent injury to a woman's physical or mental health, but the health ministry's parliamentary secretary has said that the government is consulting r...

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News, Baroness Warnock, whose report on human fertilisation and embryology in the 1980s led to the statutory approval of IVF and destructive embryo research in the UK, has said that infertile men should be allowed to clone themselves for the purpose of reproduction. In her book entitled Making...

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News, The European Union has announced that it will replace the money which the US government has denied to the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on account of its involvement with forced abortions in China. The Guardian newspaper in Britain reports that the European Commissi...

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News, Pro-lifers in the UK are delighted that a life-member of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has been chosen as the next archbishop of Canterbury. It was announced today that Tony Blair, the British prime minister, had recommended Dr Rowan Williams, currently the Ang...

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SPUC congratulates Archbishop-elect of Canterbury London, --Following the announcement of the decision of the Prime Minister to recommend to the Queen the appointment of Dr Rowan Williams to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) warmly congrat...

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News, Official statistics have indicated that there were 1.3% fewer unborn children killed in registered abortions in Germany during the first quarter of this year than during the same period last year. According to figures released by the German federal statistics institute, 35,676 unborn chi...

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News, Singapore is to become the second country in the world, after the UK, to introduce regulations authorising the creation of cloned human beings for research purposes. Tony Tan, Singapore's deputy prime minister, said yesterday that the government had approved a set of recommendations subm...

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News, Members of the UK parliament have been told that the government's strategy to reduce teenage pregnancy rates, including easy access to the morning-after pill, has failed. Between 1992 and 2000, the number of under-16s attending family planning clinics in England and Wales rose by 143.6%....

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News, Tesco, the British supermarket chain, has announced that its pharmacies will no longer provide the abortifacient morning-after pill to girls under the age of 16. The change of policy, which was announced today, comes after a concerted campaign by SPUC and other pro-life groups against Te...

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SPUC welcomes Tesco's decision to stop supplying morning after pills to under 16s SPUC welcomes Tesco's decision to stop supplying morning-after pills to under-16s London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has welcomed Tesco's decision to stop supplying abortifacient mor...

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