SPUC asks parliamentary committee to reject pro-abortion evidence London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has called on the House of Commons' select committee on health to reject evidence from pro-abortion groups given to last week's hearing on sexual health. In a letter t...

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SPUC calls for UK rethink on children's rights SPUC calls for UK rethink on children's rights London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has called for the UK to interpret a United Nations convention on children's rights as applying from conception rather than birth. In a...

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News, A report by members of Britain's House of Commons to be published this week is expected to call for an urgent review of the 1990 law which established statutory regulation of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and embryo experimentation. The report by the science and technology select committe...

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News, A British pro-life group has been given permission to mount a legal challenge to the creation and selection of embryos to serve as tissue donors for sick older siblings. Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE) was given permission by the English high court on Friday to bring a judicial rev...

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News, President Bush's bioethics panel has recommended a total ban on human cloning for live birth, with a majority calling for a four-year moratorium on cloning for research. The panel's chairman said a temporary ban would allow for debate on the issue. Seven of the committee's eighteen membe...

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News, A UK parliamentary committee was told yesterday that the "huge abortion need" in Britain should be addressed by relaxing the legal restrictions on abortion. The House of Commons health select committee was taking evidence on the effectiveness of the government's sexual health strategy, w...

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News, The Vatican has condemned the pro-abortion Van Lancker report which was passed by the European parliament last week. Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family and one of the seven cardinal bishops of the Catholic Church, said that the adoption of...

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News, The Scottish Executive has confirmed that it does not intend to follow the lead of the Department of Health in England and Wales in allowing family planning centres to offer the RU-486 abortion drug. The decision of the Executive, which exercises devolved governmental powers in Scotland,...

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News, The British government is to make the RU-486 abortion drug more widely available in the first nine weeks of pregnancy. The drug, also known as mifepristone, will be made available free on the National Health Services at family planning centres to women of all ages - including to under-ag...

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News, The British Medical Association yesterday rejected calls to reconsider its policy against assisted suicide. Participants at the BMA's annual conference rejected any change in the law on assisted suicide following the case of Dianne Pretty, whose request for a right to assisted suicide wa...

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News, The Roman Catholic bishops of Europe have criticised the European parliament for adopting the pro-abortion Van Lancker report yesterday. In a press statement, the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) expressed particular regret that the report had cal...

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News, The European parliament passed the pro-abortion Van Lancker report today in Strasbourg by 280 votes to 240, with 28 abstentions. The report, which was drawn up by the European parliament's women's rights committee, recommends the legalisation of abortion and the easy availability of the ...

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European parliament votes to promote abortion London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned the vote in the European parliament today to adopt the pro-abortion Van Lancker report on sexual and reproductive rights, which recommends the legalisation of abortion and t...

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News, The Catholic bishops of Malta, a strongly pro-life country which is seeking full membership of the European Union, have condemned pro-abortion language in the Van Lancker report. In its present form, the report recommends the legalisation of abortion in all EU member states and candidate...

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News, The Scottish first minister has ordered health boards in Scotland to shelve any plans to make the abortifacient morning-after pill available in schools. It is reported that Jack McConnell, who leads the Scottish Executive, yesterday described proposals to allow school nurses to dispense ...

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News, SPUC has warned that British government plans to allow schools to distribute contraceptive pills to pupils in an attempt to reduce teenage pregnancy rates will result in more unborn children losing their lives. John Smeaton, SPUC's national director, said: "Many of the birth control devi...

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SPUC fights provision of birth control by schools London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) is fighting government moves to make birth control available to school children of all ages. John Smeaton, SPUC's national director, said: "The government has declared war on parents'...

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News, The Scottish Executive is considering proposals to allow school nurses to prescribe the abortifacient morning-after pill to pupils of any age. A spokesman for the executive, which exercises devolved governmental powers in Scotland, confirmed that plans to allow nurses to prescribe a rang...

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News, France's highest court ruled yesterday that an unborn child does not have the legal status of a living person. Ms Sophie Potonet sued medical staff for the death of her child in labour in 1991 and a lower court found the doctor and midwife involved guilty of manslaughter. The Cour de Cas...

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News, The Roman Catholic Church in Uruguay has condemned draft legislation on artificial insemination currently before the country's parliament. Archbishop Nicolás Cotugno of Montevideo said that the legislation was morally unacceptable, while Fr Oma Franca-Tarrago, director of the Institute o...

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